pedantic is an adjective decribing a person or statement as heavily loaded with scholarly knowledge; usually implying that he/she/it's so precise that it's boring.
AnswerAn adjective describing someone that has a narrow focus on trivial aspects. It is often used to describe someone annoyingly perfectionist.Answer
Excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules.
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To be pedantic means you are overly concerned with minute details. E.G. Drill Sergeants, parents, and teachers. I probably could have left it at drill sergeant
Being overly precise about something.
Bombastic refers to language that is pompous or overly exaggerated, while pedantic refers to being overly concerned with minor details and formalities. Bombastic language is more about grandiosity and showiness, whereas pedantic behavior focuses on strict adherence to rules and correctness.
A verbose and technical speech may be referred to as a lecture or a dissertation. It could also be described as long-winded or pedantic.
The Sun had a tendency to move through the sky on an East to West axis .So, apparently the sun no longer moves east to west through the sky. I have a tendency to be pedantic on semantics.
Some words that contain the root word "onym" are synonym (meaning a word with a similar meaning), antonym (meaning a word with the opposite meaning), and homonym (meaning a word that sounds the same but has a different meaning).
The homophone for select meaning "to choose" is "selekt."
The word you're looking for is Pedantic.
Pedantic has three syllables.
"Pedantic" does not suggest that you are incorrect. Rather it indicates that you are viewing the subject very narrowly or that you are making statements that are not appreciated (regardless of accuracy). Pedantic statements are inappropriate even if they are technically correct. Example: A friend uses the term "very unique" in casual conversation. I correct her in mid-sentence, saying that "unique" can't take the modifier "very". She accuses me of being pedantic since her meaning was clear and the format was very casual. If she was writing a formal paper and I was her editor then the same correction would not be viewed as pedantic.
She's accurate because she's so pedantic. His pedantic answers to simple questions doesn't help the beginners.
He was so pedantic that he wasted twelve hours on just the title page.
If the term you wan to know about is 'pedantic' then no not really. Simplistically, 'pedantic' means :- narrow, concern for formal rules - doing things 'by the book'. A better example for pedantic would be:- The park keeper's pedantic concern about people walking on the grass upset the visitors.
"Advect" is a back-formation from advection. In the sentence it is a pedantic way of saying "move."
Pedantic, properly pronounced as ped-dant-ick, with the emphasis on the middle syllable, bears a complicated definition, for which we have to delve through history's depths. Properly, one doesn't actually delve depths, one plunges them, so it is more precise to say we must plunge history's depths in order to define "pedantic". However, plunging depths sounds somewhat misleading, and we must never mislead, particularly when defining "pedantic". To define "pedantic", one must strive for the utmost correctness, including awareness of such minor details that may lead to ambiguity or vagueness. This may continue even to the point of boring the casual listener, but the true pedant knows that defining "pedantic" properly is the best way to communicate the most exactingly proper meaning of your words.
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Pedantic
academic speech
Definition: 1. teacher: a schoolteacher or educator ( formal )2. pedantic teacher: a teacher who teaches in a particularly pedantic or dogmatic manner