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pedantic
[ puh-dan-tik ]
adjective
- ostentatious in one's learning.
- overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.
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pedantic
/ ɪˈæԳɪ /
adjective
- of, relating to, or characterized by pedantry
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Derived Forms
- ˈ岹Գپ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ·岹t·· adverb
- ·岹t··Ա noun
- i··岹t adjective
- i··岹t· adjective
- semi··岹t·· adverb
- ܲp·岹t adjective
- ܲp·岹t· adjective
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Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.
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Environmental films that are pedantic, prescriptive, or hold audiences by the collar to make them feel bad do more disservice than good, he says.
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It's told in a joke, so it makes the point without being pedantic about it or anything like that.
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But as the motley group of Colorado voters who brought the case against Trump put it, you have to engage in “pedantic wordplay” to not apply Section 3 to Trump.
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After a slightly pedantic exchange about wording, she conceded this meant she had deleted them.
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