Pedantic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pedantic \Pe*dan"tic\, Pedantical \Pe*dan"tic*al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or
     resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a
     pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical
     affectation. "Figures pedantical." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pedantic
       adj : marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
             especially its trivial aspects [syn: {academic}, {donnish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  162 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedantic":
     Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid,
     bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed,
     book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise,
     bookish, booky, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist,
     conventional, conventionalized, convoluted, corresponding,
     declamatory, devoted to studies, didactic, diligent, doctrinaire,
     donnish, dry, dryasdust, dull, elegant, elevated, erudite,
     euphemistic, euphuistic, exact, exquisite, extrinsic, fastidious,
     finical, finicky, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, formal,
     formalist, formalistic, formulary, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy,
     goody good-good, goody-goody, grandiloquent, grandiose,
     grandisonant, hair-splitting, harmonious, high-flowing, high-flown,
     high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, impersonal, in accord,
     in keeping, in line, in step, inkhorn, kosher, labyrinthine,
     learned, legalistic, lexiphanic, literary, lofty, lurid,
     magniloquent, mandarin, meretricious, meticulous, mincing,
     namby-pamby, nit-picking, nominal, orotund, orthodox, ostentatious,
     outward, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overnice,
     overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, overwrought, owlish,
     pedagogic, pedantical, perfectionist, plastic, pompous, preachy,
     preceptorial, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic,
     precisionistic, pretentious, professorial, professorlike,
     punctilious, puristic, quibbling, rabbinic, rhetorical, scholarly,
     scholastic, schoolish, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish,
     schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy,
     schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, scrupulous, sensational,
     sensationalistic, sententious, showy, simpering, sonorous, square,
     stiff, stilted, straight, studious, stuffy, stylized, superficial,
     surface, tall, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tortuous,
     traditionalist, tutorial, uptight, vain