Pedantic
1pedantic — pedantic, academic, scholastic, bookish are comparable as terms of derogation applied to thinkers, scholars, and learned men and their utterances. Pedantic often implies ostentatious display of knowledge, didacticism, and stodg iness {his… …
2Pedantic — Pe*dan tic, Pedantical Pe*dan tic*al, a. Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. Figures pedantical. Shak. [1913… …
3pedantic — PEDÁNTIC, Ă, pedantici, ce, adj. (înv.) Pedant (1). – Pedant + suf. ic. Trimis de valeriu, 03.02.2004. Sursa: DEX 98 PEDÁNTIC adj. v. meticulos, pedant, scrupu los, tipicar. Trimis de siveco, 13.09.2007. Sursa: Sinonime pedántic …
4pedantic — index dogmatic, inflated (bombastic), learned, sesquipedalian Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
5pedantic — formed in English c.1600, from PEDANT (Cf. pedant) + IC (Cf. ic). The French equivalent is pédantesque. Perhaps first attested in John Donne s Sunne Rising, where he bids the morning sun let his love and him linger in bed, telling it, Sawcy… …
6pedantic — [adj] bookish, precise abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting*, learned, nit picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish*, punctilious,… …
7pedantic — pe|dan|tic [pıˈdæntık] adj paying too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details pedantic about ▪ Some people can be very pedantic about punctuation. >pedantically [ kli] adv …
8pedantic — [[t]pɪdæ̱ntɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you think someone is pedantic, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects. His lecture was so pedantic and… …
9pedantic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. precise, formal, narrow; bookish, stilted; affected, sophomoric. See affectation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. formal, precise, pompous, ostentatious of learning, pedagogic, punctilious, bookish,… …
10pedantic — adjective paying too much attention to rules and details: He was meticulous, but never pedantic. pedantically / kli/ adverb …