Synonyms for pedantic
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formal, precise, pompous, ostentatious of learning, pedagogic, punctilious, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, academic, scholastic, hypercritical, finicky; see also egotistic 2.
See pedantic in American Heritage Dictionary 4 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.
See pedantic in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
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, flexible, teach
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