Definition for Pedantic:

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

Synonyms for Pedantic:

• adj.

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

• n.

  •
  • temperamental,
  • fractious,
  • touchy,
  • short-tempered,
  • hot-tempered,
  • moody,
  • bad-tempered,
  • sensitive,
  • irascible,
  • irritable.
  •
  • formalistic,
  • Pedantical,
  • flexible,
  • teach,
  • Inkhorn,
  • attitude,
  • scholastic.
  •formal (noun)
  • precise,
  • punctilious,
  • pedagogic,
  • didactic,
  • scholastic,
  • egotistic,
  • doctrinaire,
  • pompous,
  • hypercritical.
  •pedantic (noun)
  • academic,
  • scholarly,
  • donnish.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • formalistic,
  • Pedantical,
  • Inkhorn.
  •
  • scholastic,
  • affected.
  •biased
  • prejudiced.
  •instructive
  • didactic.
  •overnice
  • prudish.
  •unlettered
  • unlearned.
  •Other relevant words:
  • magniloquent,
  • euphemistic,
  • legalistic,
  • exact,
  • overwrought,
  • flaming,
  • laboured,
  • irritable,
  • superficial,
  • namby-pamby,
  • in keeping,
  • meticulous,
  • unimaginative,
  • sonorous,
  • precise,
  • rigid,
  • irascible,
  • theoretic,
  • self-centred,
  • Pedantical,
  • dull,
  • hypercritical,
  • formal,
  • inflated,
  • ornate,
  • teachy,
  • rich,
  • unread,
  • impersonal,
  • orthodox,
  • stuffy,
  • theatrical,
  • in line,
  • artificial,
  • garish,
  • theatrically,
  • Turgescent,
  • illiterate,
  • bluestocking,
  • fastidious,
  • scrupulous,
  • orotund,
  • self-important,
  • written,
  • pedagogic,
  • convoluted,
  • bad-tempered,
  • overrefined,
  • preachy,
  • schoolmasterly,
  • schoolish,
  • prejudiced,
  • teach,
  • recondite,
  • hairsplitting,
  • niminy-piminy,
  • hot-tempered,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • fuddy-duddy,
  • pedantically,
  • rude,
  • arid,
  • sensationalistic,
  • tutorial,
  • overelaborate,
  • pedant,
  • plastic,
  • nit-picking,
  • extrinsic,
  • florid,
  • outward,
  • compulsive,
  • high-sounding,
  • straight,
  • sententious,
  • accurately,
  • owlish,
  • quibbling,
  • punctiliously,
  • Flaunting,
  • uneducated,
  • vain,
  • shallow,
  • flamboyant,
  • overprecise,
  • particular,
  • Canting,
  • didactical,
  • laboriously,
  • forced,
  • empty,
  • rabbinic,
  • Beautified,
  • egotistic,
  • overdone,
  • diligent,
  • tumid,
  • Euphuistic,
  • dizzy,
  • grandiloquent,
  • ill-tempered,
  • pompously,
  • bombastic,
  • pedagogue,
  • affected,
  • mincing,
  • overnice,
  • literal-minded,
  • uptight,
  • mouthy,
  • tortuous,
  • touchy,
  • accurate,
  • elegant,
  • fussily,
  • anal,
  • prim,
  • conformist,
  • high-flown,
  • green,
  • la-di-da,
  • precisely,
  • empty-headed,
  • ornament,
  • didactic,
  • Preceptorial,
  • fastidiously,
  • finical,
  • stiff,
  • uninformed,
  • Big-sounding,
  • lofty,
  • Chop-logic,
  • Precieuse,
  • corresponding,
  • laborious,
  • Altiloquent,
  • stagily,
  • pompous,
  • Dryasdust,
  • Book-learned,
  • fussy,
  • sensational,
  • fustian,
  • punctilious,
  • bigot,
  • in accord,
  • short-tempered,
  • square,
  • stilted,
  • declamatory,
  • affectedly,
  • tall,
  • Formalist,
  • dry,
  • professorial,
  • conventional,
  • goody-goody,
  • Half-learned,
  • staid,
  • donnish,
  • stiltedly,
  • Simpering,
  • schoolmasterish,
  • old fashioned,
  • stylized,
  • concordant,
  • unbookish,
  • unlearned,
  • priggish,
  • high-flying,
  • Overscrupulous,
  • swelling,
  • perfectionist,
  • moody,
  • flexible,
  • formally,
  • strait-laced,
  • stodgy,
  • exquisite,
  • ponderous,
  • traditionalist,
  • unrelaxed,
  • highfalutin,
  • ostentatious,
  • mandarin,
  • formalistic,
  • harmonious,
  • wooden,
  • Formulary,
  • Puristic,
  • Booky,
  • nominal,
  • prudish,
  • pretentious,
  • fractious,
  • attitude,
  • rhetorical,
  • flashy,
  • bookworm,
  • insincere,
  • flowery,
  • turgid,
  • Lexiphanic,
  • frothy,
  • gaudy,
  • labyrinthine,
  • temperamental,
  • showy,
  • conventionalized,
  • grandiose,
  • studious,
  • teacherish,
  • doctrinaire,
  • sensitive,
  • pedagogical,
  • stagy,
  • Ad captandum,
  • surface,
  • ostentatiously,
  • Inkhorn,
  • bourgeois,
  • unlettered,
  • Sesquipedal,
  • logically,
  • Precisian,
  • bedizened,
  • exactly,
  • meretricious,
  • accordant,
  • scholastic,
  • hair-splitting,
  • lurid,
  • fulsome,
  • elevated,
  • kosher,
  • abstruse,
  • precious.

Antonyms for Pedantic:

• adj.

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