Pedantic Synonyms and Antonyms

pə-dăntĭk
Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. academic
  2. bookish
  3. donnish
  4. scholastic
  5. didactic
  6. precise
  7. formal
  8. pompous
  9. ostentatious of learning
  10. pedagogic
  11. punctilious
  12. formalistic
  13. doctrinaire
  14. inkhorn
  15. literary
  16. hairsplitting
  17. hypercritical
  18. pedantical
  19. finicky
  20. learned
  21. schoolish
Antonyms:
  1. imprecise
  2. informal

Words Related to Pedantic

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Pedantic Sentence Examples

  • Being a pedantic old academic I 'm a stickler for accuracy.

  • It seemed as though the Renaissance ran a risk of being throttled in its cradle by superfluity of foreign and pedantic nutriment.

  • 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.

  • He was disgusted at the pedantic teaching of his own day, and he insisted that the teaching of words and things must go together.

  • Only those who hold such a ridiculously pedantic view could vilify the Irish rebellion by calling it a ' putsch '.

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