Definition for Pedantic:

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

Synonyms for Pedantic:

• adj.

  •academic (adjective)
  • literary,
  • Book-learned,
  • learned,
  • collegiate,
  • erudite,
  • scholarly.
  •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.
  •bookish, precise (adjective)
  • egotistic,
  • nit-picking,
  • doctrinaire,
  • didactic,
  • pompous,
  • dull,
  • overnice,
  • pedagogic,
  • schoolish,
  • arid,
  • priggish,
  • dry,
  • hairsplitting,
  • abstruse,
  • formal,
  • sententious.
  •critical (adjective)
  • harsh,
  • judgmental,
  • derogatory,
  • captious,
  • Fault-finding,
  • caviling,
  • carping,
  • disparaging,
  • critical.
  •didactic (adjective)
  • teacherish,
  • teacherly,
  • Preceptive,
  • homiletic,
  • teachy,
  • hortative,
  • exhortative,
  • schoolmasterist,
  • Sermonic.
  •didactical (adjective)
  • lecturelike,
  • homiletical.
  •ponderous (adjective)
  • more cardboard,
  • most plodding,
  • long winded,
  • most cardboard,
  • ponderous,
  • more plodding.
  •recondite (adjective)
  • Acroamatic,
  • orphic,
  • little-known,
  • little known.
  •stilted (adjective)
  • highsounding,
  • most euphuistic,
  • high sounding,
  • over-blown,
  • over blown,
  • high flown,
  • highflown,
  • more euphuistic.
  •stodgy (adjective)
  • banausic.
  •theoretic (adjective)
  • hypothetic.
  •theoretical (adjective)
  • 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.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Pedantical,
  • Inkhorn.
  •
  • scholastic.
  •biased
  • prejudiced.
  •overnice
  • prudish.
  •unlettered
  • unlearned.

Antonyms for Pedantic:

• adj.

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

Pedantic Sentence Examples:

• We must guard against the pedantic additions of the sixteenth century writers.

• Raleigh was the last of the great Elizabethan adventurers, and with the accession of the pedantic James I the New World was beginning to be regarded in the dry light of a commercial opportunity.