Pedantic synonyms

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punctilious
Strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct.
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pedagogic
The definition of pedagogic is something that is connected to teachers or teaching.
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teach (related)
Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters
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pernickety (related)
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ostentatious of learning
marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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inkhorn
Pedantic; bookish
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egotistic (related)
Egotistical.
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didactic
The definition of didactic is used for teaching.
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bookish
Literary, formal, or erudite. Used of language.
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scholastic
Of or relating to school; academic
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donnish
(Of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.
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attitude (related)
Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters
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flippant (related)
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facetious (related)
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pretentious (related)
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condescending (related)
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long-winded (related)
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glib (related)
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preachy (related)
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sarcastic (related)
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wordy (related)
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pompous
The definition of pompous is someone who has excessive self-esteem.
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academic
Alternative form of academic.
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hypercritical
Too critical; too severe in judgment; hard to please
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doctrinaire
Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
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finicky
(Informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.
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hairsplitting
(A) making overnice or petty distinctions; quibbling
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learned
Acquired by study, experience, etc.
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schoolish
Of or pertaining to school; scholastic.
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imprecise (antonym)
Not precise or exact; containing some error or uncertainty.
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informal (antonym)
Not in accord with the usual regulations; unofficial.
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formal
Following or being in accord with accepted or prescribed forms, conventions, or regulations:
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flexible (related)
The definition of flexible is someone or something that bends easily, is easily persuaded or can be changed easily.
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literary
Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
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Pedantic Sentence Examples

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

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

  • 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.

  • I was too young to do more than see and note facts, and thanks to my natural indolence and that passion for the concrete, which is at once the joy and the weakness of artists, I should perhaps always have remained at that stage if my somewhat pedantic critics had not driven me to reflect and painfully search after the ultimate causes of which till then I had only grasped the effects.

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