pedantic

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Being finicky or fastidious with language
Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner
Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
{a} like a pedant, conceited, vain, proud
disapproval If you think someone is pedantic, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects. His lecture was so pedantic and uninteresting. paying too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details pedantic about
Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation
Pedantic is comes from the french [pédant] and Italian [pedante], and probably originated from the Greek [paiduein] meaning "to instruct " The word originally meant a holder of a degree or school master, but has since become pejorative to mean a person who presents his knowledge pretentiously or to excess It is also used to describe those who hold leaning from books to such a vaunted status that they forsake practical logic and common reasoning [back]
formal and uninspired; making a vain display of learning
Often used to describe a person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary; ostentatious in one's learning
Being finicky or picky with language
adj - observing strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view This can also refer to the author's tone, as overly scholarly and academic
Obsessive insistence or sureness that things or persons will or do conform to words exactly as they have been written
Describes a story in which the moral or message the author wants to teach overwhelms the plot
Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner
marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
{s} meticulous; strict, fussy; adhering strictly to information in books without using common sense
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in a pedantic manner; "these interpretations are called `schemas' or, more pedantically, `schemata'"
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in the manner of strictly adhering to information in books without using common sense; meticulously, fastidiously; strictly
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in a pedantic manner; "these interpretations are called `schemas' or, more pedantically, `schemata'
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