Pedantic Definition

pə-dăntĭk
adjective
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules.
A pedantic attention to details.
American Heritage

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

Wiktionary

Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.

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Origin of Pedantic

  • From pedant +"Ž -ic.

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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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