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Pedantic

//pəˈdæn.tɪk//

Synonyms for "pedantic" (176 found)

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Informal (18)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

square straight stiff

Adj, name, noun, phrase, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(6 words)

plastic stuffy elegant mandarin highfalutin uptight

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(3 words)

showy finicky schoolteachery

General use (158)

Adj, name, verb(2 words)

Adj, noun(30 words)

formal exquisite superficial tall gaudy conventional nominal orthodox scholastic academic flamboyant formulary impersonal rhetorical perfectionist didactic dryasdust conformist extrinsic doctrinaire

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compulsive orotund formalist traditionalist Johnsonian tutorial goody goody erudite goody-goody preceptorial

Name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adjective(74 words)

lurid fulsome harmonious sensational labyrinthine boring meticulous sonorous scrupulous concordant pompous meretricious tortuous arid stodgy pretentious fastidious picky sententious flashy

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Adj, adv, verb(2 words)

Adj, noun, verb(8 words)

affected vain corresponding recondite namby-pamby flaunting mincing simpering

Adj, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adjective(2 words)

academic donnish

Adj, name(1 words)

Adj, verb(8 words)

stilted overwrought overdone convoluted overelaborate overrefined bedizened stylized

namby pamby high flown high flying high sounding precisionistic in keeping big-sounding high-flowing precieuse goody good-good devoted to studies schoolmasterlike book-fed book-loving

Adj, adv, noun, verb(1 words)

Noun, verb(2 words)

quibbling schoolmastering

Adj, adv(2 words)

in line scholarly

Noun(5 words)

inkhorn precisian nit-picking bluestocking hair-splitting

Prep_phrase(2 words)

in accord in step

Verb(1 words)

conventionalized

Adverb(1 words)

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