Pedantic definition

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Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules.

A pedantic attention to details.

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The definition of pedantic is someone who is very concerned with the details of a subject and tends to overly show off their knowledge.

An example of someone who is pedantic is a person at a party who bores everyone while talking at length about the origin and details of a particular piece of pottery.

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Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner.
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Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
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Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
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Origin of pedantic

  • From pedant +"Ž -ic.

    From Wiktionary

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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