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Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical:
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- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical:
- Having to do with general or liberal rather than technical or vocational education
- Of or relating to studies that rely on reading and involve abstract thought rather than being primarily practical or technical.
Literary, formal, or erudite. Used of language.
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- Literary, formal, or erudite. Used of language.
- Relying chiefly on book learning rather than practical experience; impractical or unworldly:
- Inclined to read and study; literary; scholarly
Pedantic; bookish
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- Pedantic; bookish
- Affectedly or ostentatiously learned; pedantic:
Of, having the nature of, or dealing with literature
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- Of, having the nature of, or dealing with literature
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing.
- Of, relating to, or dealing with literature:
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules:
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Pedantic, dogmatic, formal, etc.
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- Pedantic, dogmatic, formal, etc.
- Of schools, colleges, universities, students, teachers, and studies; educational; academic
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scholasticism.
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