Pedantical [adjective]

Definition of Pedantical:

pedantic

Synonyms of Pedantical:

● Abstruse

● Academic

● Arid

● Bookish

● Didactic

● Doctrinaire

● Dry

● Dull

● Egotistic

● Erudite

● Formal

● Fussy

● Hairsplitting

● Inkhorn

● Learned

● Literary

● Ostentatious

● Particular

● Pedagogic

● Pompous

● Priggish

● Punctilious

● Sententious

● Stilted

● Donnish

● Formalistic

● Nit-picking

● Overnice

● Scholastic

● Schoolish


Opposite/Antonyms of Pedantical:

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Sentence/Example of Pedantical:

It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations.

I do not think that success will come by a pedantical insistence upon correctness in form without regard to the sense.

There remain two appendices touching the tradition of knowledge, the one critical, the other pedantical.