His lecture was so pedantic and uninteresting.
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pedantic — pedantic, academic, scholastic, bookish are comparable as terms of derogation applied to thinkers, scholars, and learned men and their utterances. Pedantic often implies ostentatious display of knowledge, didacticism, and stodg iness {his… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Pedantic — Pe*dan tic, Pedantical Pe*dan tic*al, a. Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. Figures pedantical. Shak. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pedantic — PEDÁNTIC, Ă, pedantici, ce, adj. (înv.) Pedant (1). – Pedant + suf. ic. Trimis de valeriu, 03.02.2004. Sursa: DEX 98 PEDÁNTIC adj. v. meticulos, pedant, scrupu los, tipicar. Trimis de siveco, 13.09.2007. Sursa: Sinonime pedántic … Dicționar Român
pedantic — index dogmatic, inflated (bombastic), learned, sesquipedalian Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
pedantic — formed in English c.1600, from PEDANT (Cf. pedant) + IC (Cf. ic). The French equivalent is pédantesque. Perhaps first attested in John Donne s Sunne Rising, where he bids the morning sun let his love and him linger in bed, telling it, Sawcy… … Etymology dictionary
pedantic — [adj] bookish, precise abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting*, learned, nit picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish*, punctilious,… … New thesaurus
pedantic — pe|dan|tic [pıˈdæntık] adj paying too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details pedantic about ▪ Some people can be very pedantic about punctuation. >pedantically [ kli] adv … Dictionary of contemporary English
pedantic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. precise, formal, narrow; bookish, stilted; affected, sophomoric. See affectation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. formal, precise, pompous, ostentatious of learning, pedagogic, punctilious, bookish,… … English dictionary for students
pedantic — adjective paying too much attention to rules and details: He was meticulous, but never pedantic. pedantically / kli/ adverb … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
pedantic — adjective a pedantic interpretation of the rules Syn: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist; casuistic, casuistical,… … Thesaurus of popular words
