pedantic

pe·dan·tic  (p-dntk)

adj.

Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.

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pe·danti·cal·ly adv.

Synonyms: pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic
These adjectives mean marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech; scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.

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pedantic [pɪˈdæntɪk]

adj

of, relating to, or characterized by pedantry

pedantically  adv

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

pedantic - marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects donnish, academic scholarly - characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude"

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pedantic

adjective

1. hairsplitting, particular, formal, precise, fussy, picky (informal), nit-picking (informal), punctilious, priggish, pedagogic, anal retentive, overnice all his pedantic quibbles about grammar

2. academic, pompous, schoolmasterly, stilted, erudite, scholastic, didactic, bookish, abstruse, donnish, sententious His lecture was pedantic and uninteresting.

Translations

pedantic [pɪˈdæntɪk] ADJ → pedante

pedantic [pɪˈdæntɪk] adj → tatillon(ne)

pedantic

adj → pedantisch; to be pedantic about something → in Bezug auf etw (acc) → pedantisch sein

pedantic [pɪˈdæntɪk] adj → pedante, pedantesco/a