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Another word for pedantic

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pedantic

modif.

formal, precise, pompous, ostentatious of learning, pedagogic, punctilious, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, academic, scholastic, hypercritical, finicky; see also egotistic 2.

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Another word for pedantic

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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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It seemed as though the Renaissance ran a risk of being throttled in its cradle by superfluity of foreign and pedantic nutriment.
He was disgusted at the pedantic teaching of his own day, and he insisted that the teaching of words and things must go together.
Instinctively a humanist, he had little patience with the narrow curriculum of Harvard in his day and the rather pedantic spirit with which classical studies were there pursued.
From his mother, Elizabeth Vitlitsaya, he inherited most of his characteristics, an insatiable love of work, an almost pedantic love of order and the most rigorous sense of duty.
Some English applications of free trade theory in recent times in the matter of import duties have been pedantic - the abolition of the shilling corn duty in 1869 by Robert Lowe (Lord Sherbrooke) being typical of this pedantry, though it is not the only instance.

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