Pedantic meaning

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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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Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
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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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Origin of pedantic

  • From pedant +"Ž -ic.
    From Wiktionary

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.

  • 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.

  • This narrow and pedantic theory had at least the merit of insisting on propriety of expression.

  • 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.

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