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.