Pedantic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  • adj. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
  • adj. Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a pedant or pedantry; overrating the importance of mere learning; also, making an undue or inappropriate display of learning; of language, style, etc., exhibiting pedantry; absurdly learned: as, a pedantic air.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
  • Equivalent
    scholarly    pedantical   
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    colloquial   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pedantical    budget    bluestocking    blue    bookish    fussy    anal-retentive    nit-picky    pedagogical    pretentious   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Atlantic    Romantic    antic    frantic    gigantic    romantic    semantic    sycophantic    transatlantic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pompous    tiresome    narrow-minded    frivolous    stilted    boastful    absurd    trivial    ludicrous    dogmatic