pedantic
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pe·dan·tic
(pə-dăn'tĭk) 
adj.
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.
pedantically pe·dan'ti·cal·ly adv.
adj.
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.
pedantically pe·dan'ti·cal·ly adv.
SYNONYMS pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic. These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.
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pedantic
adjective
- Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters: academic, bookish, donnish, formalistic, inkhorn, literary, pedantical, scholastic. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, flexible/rigid, teach/learn.
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pedantic
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Definition: bookish, precise
Antonyms: imprecise, informal
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IN BRIEF: Bookish; showing off learning.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
— Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
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