Definition for Pedantic:

• Pertaining to, or marked by, a conceited and needless display of learning.

Synonyms for Pedantic:

• adj.

  •academic (adjective)
  • literary,
  • learned,
  • scholarly,
  • erudite,
  • Book-learned.
  •bookish, precise (adjective)
  • arid,
  • egotistic,
  • doctrinaire,
  • formal,
  • nit-picking,
  • pompous,
  • hairsplitting,
  • schoolish,
  • dry,
  • didactic,
  • priggish,
  • abstruse,
  • dull,
  • sententious,
  • pedagogic,
  • ostentatious,
  • overnice.
  •critical (adjective)
  • harsh,
  • judgmental,
  • derogatory,
  • captious,
  • Fault-finding,
  • caviling,
  • carping,
  • disparaging,
  • critical.
  •didactic (adjective)
  • teachy,
  • teacherish.
  •instructive (adjective)
  • didactical.
  •learned (adjective)
  • professorial.

• n.

  •
  • temperamental,
  • fractious,
  • touchy,
  • short-tempered,
  • hot-tempered,
  • moody,
  • bad-tempered,
  • sensitive,
  • irascible,
  • irritable.
  •
  • attitude,
  • teach,
  • flexible.
  •formal (noun)
  • precise,
  • hypercritical.

Antonyms for Pedantic:

• adj.

  • bookish, precise
    informal, imprecise, plain, simple.
  • Other antonyms:
    unscholarly.