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What does the word pedantic mean?
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Pronunciation:
[ pɛdˈantɪk], [ pɛdˈantɪk], [ p_ɛ_d_ˈa_n_t_ɪ_k]
Related words: over-pedantic, pedantic definition, pedantic synonyms, pedantic use
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Similar words for pedantic:
- academic (adjective)
- affected (adjective)
- bookish, precise (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- didactic (adjective)
- didactical (adjective)
- instructive (adjective)
- la-di-da (adjective)
- learned (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- ponderous (adjective)
- recondite (adjective)
- stilted (adjective)
- stodgy (adjective)
- theoretic (adjective)
- theoretical (adjective)
- formal (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- biased
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Pedantic:
adj.
• academic (adjective) • affected (adjective)- in sincerer,
- sham,
- high falutin',
- hamest,
- schmaltzy,
- most faked,
- pretentious,
- in-sincere,
- hamer,
- more put-on,
- most puton,
- ostentatious,
- more playacting,
- in sincere,
- most put on,
- in-sincerest,
- hammiest,
- most put-on,
- puton,
- pre-tended,
- self conscious,
- un natural,
- more counterfeited,
- most counterfeited,
- fraud,
- over done,
- un-natural,
- frauder,
- hammier,
- more affected,
- insincere,
- simulated,
- more puton,
- more faked,
- more put on,
- over-done,
- fraudest,
- most playacting,
- in sincerest,
- shallower,
- pre tended,
- in-sincerer,
- selfconscious,
- shallow.
- egotistic,
- nit-picking,
- doctrinaire,
- didactic,
- pompous,
- dull,
- overnice,
- pedagogic,
- schoolish,
- arid,
- priggish,
- dry,
- hairsplitting,
- abstruse,
- formal,
- sententious.
- teacherish,
- teacherly,
- Preceptive,
- homiletic,
- teachy,
- hortative,
- exhortative,
- schoolmasterist,
- Sermonic.
- bookish,
- moralizing,
- affected,
- stodgy,
- ideational,
- in theory,
- in the abstract,
- cardboard,
- high falutin,
- campy,
- recondite,
- stilted,
- formalistic,
- la-di-da,
- theoretical,
- theoretic,
- campier,
- hammy,
- longwinded,
- ideological,
- academic,
- campiest,
- as a premise,
- Euphuistic.
- highsounding,
- most euphuistic,
- high sounding,
- over-blown,
- over blown,
- high flown,
- highflown,
- more euphuistic.
- most presumed,
- most formularized,
- notional,
- most instanced,
- un-earthly,
- more ideational,
- most postulated,
- un-proved,
- un substantiated,
- more presumed,
- more formalistic,
- un-earthlier,
- un earthliest,
- un earthlier,
- most ideational,
- most idealized,
- more formularized,
- un-substantiated,
- un-earthliest,
- meta-physical,
- unproved,
- meta physical,
- most codified,
- un proved,
- more idealized,
- more codified,
- more postulated,
- as premise,
- formularized,
- un earthly,
- more instanced,
- most formalistic,
- more ideological,
- most ideological,
- Postulated,
- in abstract.
n.
• formal (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
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- Pedantical,
- Inkhorn.
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- scholastic.
- meticulous,
- nominal,
- green,
- flowery,
- highfalutin,
- overwrought,
- meretricious,
- conventional,
- scrupulous,
- unread,
- in accord,
- accordant,
- ostentatiously,
- stagily,
- declamatory,
- rich,
- flashy,
- labyrinthine,
- unlettered,
- Overscrupulous,
- pedantically,
- grandiloquent,
- Formulary,
- convoluted,
- sesquipedalian,
- corresponding,
- bourgeois,
- exactly,
- bigot,
- owlish,
- flaming,
- mincing,
- tumid,
- flamboyant,
- stiltedly,
- sensationalistic,
- concordant,
- ornament,
- fulsome,
- fussily,
- unbookish,
- literal-minded,
- precisely,
- written,
- exact,
- Formalist,
- rigid,
- grandiose,
- preachy,
- laboured,
- accurately,
- harmonious,
- traditionalist,
- Flaunting,
- accurate,
- elegant,
- wooden,
- elevated,
- goody-goody,
- precious,
- vain,
- unimaginative,
- impersonal,
- laborious,
- high-flown,
- conformist,
- mandarin,
- finical,
- lofty,
- ill-tempered,
- sensational,
- self-centred,
- extrinsic,
- ponderous,
- illiterate,
- niminy-piminy,
- mouthy,
- rabbinic,
- surface,
- formally,
- Simpering,
- inflated,
- fastidiously,
- Big-sounding,
- artificial,
- conventionalized,
- Chop-logic,
- prim,
- Puristic,
- empty-headed,
- rhetorical,
- diligent,
- dizzy,
- old-fogyish,
- orotund,
- stagy,
- overrefined,
- theatrical,
- book-fed,
- unrelaxed,
- bombastic,
- uneducated,
- exquisite,
- stylized,
- staid,
- pedagogue,
- tall,
- gaudy,
- swelling,
- schoolmasterish,
- compulsive,
- empty,
- outward,
- fustian,
- square,
- legalistic,
- rude,
- Canting,
- prudish,
- hair-splitting,
- Turgescent,
- pedagogical,
- forced,
- tortuous,
- Precisian,
- namby-pamby,
- bluestocking,
- old fashioned,
- fuddy-duddy,
- in line,
- superficial,
- strait-laced,
- unlearned,
- garish,
- Dryasdust,
- orthodox,
- book-wise,
- bookworm,
- florid,
- plastic,
- bibliophagic,
- high-flying,
- studious,
- tutorial,
- Half-learned,
- Booky,
- straight,
- turgid,
- schoolmasterly,
- Lexiphanic,
- ornate,
- self-important,
- Precieuse,
- laboriously,
- quibbling,
- Ad captandum,
- frothy,
- stiff,
- magniloquent,
- overelaborate,
- bedizened,
- kosher,
- sonorous,
- uptight,
- high-sounding,
- theatrically,
- Altiloquent,
- stuffy,
- Preceptorial,
- pompously,
- overdone,
- uninformed,
- overprecise,
- logically,
- in keeping,
- euphemistic,
- Sesquipedal,
- Beautified,
- showy,
- punctiliously,
- lurid,
- affectedly.
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