Pronunciation:

/pɪˈdantɪk/

Meaning:

- disapproving.

- stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned.

- Too worried about small details or rules.

A pedantic insistence on the correct way of doing things

- Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulou

His analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic

pedantically

Pronunciation: /pɪˈdantɪkli/

adverb

pedant

Noun

- One who makes a show of knowledge.

- One who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge.

- A formalist or precisionist in teaching.

Words that rhyme with pedantic

Antic, Atlantic, transatlantic

Middle French, from Italian pedante