pedantic
About 0.59 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
- adjective Tending to show off one’s knowledge, often in a tiresome manner.
Similar words
scholarly donnish academic pedantick pedant pedantical precisianistic pedantocratic paedagogical paedagogic
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Word family
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