pedantic
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- pa-dăn'tĭk, /pəˈdæntɪk/, /p@"d{ntIk/
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pedantic (comparative more pedantic, superlative most pedantic)
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- Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- Winston Churchill, (On being informed that one should not end a sentence with a preposition.)
- That is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill, (On being informed that one should not end a sentence with a preposition.)
- Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
- Often used to describe a person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary; ostentatious in one’s learning.
- Being finicky or picky with language.
- Obsessive insistence or sureness that things or persons will or do conform to words exactly as they have been written.
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