Pedantic \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 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pedantic
adj : marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
especially its trivial aspects [syn: academic, donnish]
WordNet (r) 2.0
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedantic":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid,
bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed,
book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise,
bookish, booky, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist,
conventional, conventionalized, convoluted, corresponding,
declamatory, devoted to studies, didactic, diligent, doctrinaire,
donnish, dry, dryasdust, dull, elegant, elevated, erudite,
euphemistic, euphuistic, exact, exquisite, extrinsic, fastidious,
finical, finicky, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, formal,
formalist, formalistic, formulary, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy,
goody good-good, goody-goody, grandiloquent, grandiose,
grandisonant, hair-splitting, harmonious, high-flowing, high-flown,
high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, impersonal, in accord,
in keeping, in line, in step, inkhorn, kosher, labyrinthine,
learned, legalistic, lexiphanic, literary, lofty, lurid,
magniloquent, mandarin, meretricious, meticulous, mincing,
namby-pamby, nit-picking, nominal, orotund, orthodox, ostentatious,
outward, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overnice,
overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, overwrought, owlish,
pedagogic, pedantical, perfectionist, plastic, pompous, preachy,
preceptorial, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic,
precisionistic, pretentious, professorial, professorlike,
punctilious, puristic, quibbling, rabbinic, rhetorical, scholarly,
scholastic, schoolish, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish,
schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy,
schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, scrupulous, sensational,
sensationalistic, sententious, showy, simpering, sonorous, square,
stiff, stilted, straight, studious, stuffy, stylized, superficial,
surface, tall, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tortuous,
traditionalist, tutorial, uptight, vain
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
academic, donnish
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