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synonyms for pedantic

  • abstruse
  • pompous
  • stilted
  • academic
  • arid
  • didactic
  • doctrinaire
  • donnish
  • dry
  • dull
  • egotistic
  • erudite
  • formal
  • fussy
  • hairsplitting
  • learned
  • nit-picking
  • ostentatious
  • overnice
  • particular
  • pedagogic
  • priggish
  • punctilious
  • scholastic
  • schoolish
  • sententious

antonyms for pedantic

MOST RELEVANT
  • plain
  • simple
  • imprecise
  • informal
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How to use pedantic in a sentence

From included streaming options to a few inches in diagonal length, shopping for a new TV can be a bit pedantic.
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These details can sound pedantic, but they can make a huge difference in day-to-day use.
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Pedantic, unimaginative and presumptuous, Theobald was the logical choice for a Dunce King in 1728.
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A pedantic fellow called for a bottle of hock at a tavern, which the waiter, not hearing distinctly, asked him to repeat.
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He is no longer pedantic; he no longer makes vulgar allusions, but only fears that they might be made.
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The ages in which they flourished attached no value to pedantic displays of learning paraded in foot-notes.
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There was Sir James Smith, the botanist, made much of and really not pedantic and vulgar like the rest, but weak and irritable.
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I do not like to be made game of, because I am aware that I am naturally pedantic.
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He is, upon the whole, a very worthy man, though rather pedantic in his way.
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It is due to two causes—the natural development of the language, and the pedantic interference of the learned.
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WORDS RELATED TO PEDANTIC

  • book-learned
  • bookish
  • college
  • collegiate
  • erudite
  • intellectual
  • learned
  • pedantic
  • scholarly
  • scholastic
  • studious
  • university
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