pedantic

• pedantick (obsolete)

From pedant +‎ -ic.

• enPR: pa-dăn'tĭk, IPA^(key): /pəˈdæn.tɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æntɪk

pedantic (comparative more pedantic, superlative most pedantic)

1. Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
2. Tending to show off one’s knowledge, often in a tiresome manner.
   • 1838, Richard Hurrell Froude, John Henry Newman, John Keble, Remains of the Late Reverend Richard Hurrell Froude, page 416:

     The style is pedantic and reviewish: but I can easily fancy states of mind to which it may be no less salutary on that account.

• 1884, J[ulius] F[erdinand] Räbiger, translated by John Macpherson, Encyclopædia of Theology (Clark’s Foreign Theological Library, volume XX), volume I, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, page 79:

  In a special section Tittmann lays down a theological doctrine of method, which embraces theological discipline, that is, the arrangement of study according to a determined plan; theological architectonic, that is, the scientific treatment of theology; and theological pædantic, that is, practical theology.

• 1895, “BRETSCHNEIDER, Karl Gottlieb”, in The Home Encyclopædia: Compiled and Revised to Date from the Leading Encyclopædias, volume four, Chicago: Educational Publishing Co., page 1102:

  He gives an interesting account of his early childhood and school training, of the impression produced upon him by his father’s dignified bearing, and of the agricultural pursuits and piscatorial amusements by which the clerical and pædantic labors of the latter were diversified.

• pedantical
• (like a pedant): (informal, derogatory) anal-retentive, fussy, nit-picky
• (showy of one's knowledge): (sometimes applicable) nit-picky, ostentatious, pedagogical, pretentious
• See also Thesaurus:fastidious

• pedant
• pedantical
• pedantry

• inkhorn

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pedantic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pedantic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• depactin, pentacid, pentadic

From pedant +‎ -ic.

pedantic m or n (feminine singular pedantică, masculine plural pedantici, feminine and neuter plural pedantice)

1. pedantic