[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pedantic \pedan"tic\, pedantical \pedan"tical\, a.
   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. "figures pedantical." --shak.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pedantic
     adj : marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
           especially its trivial aspects syn: academic, donnish
see also:
academic donnish 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

162 moby thesaurus words for "pedantic":
   gongoresque, johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid,
   bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed,
   book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise,
   bookish, booky, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist,
   conventional, conventionalized, convoluted, corresponding,
   declamatory, devoted to studies, didactic, diligent, doctrinaire,
   donnish, dry, dryasdust, dull, elegant, elevated, erudite,
   euphemistic, euphuistic, exact, exquisite, extrinsic, fastidious,
   finical, finicky, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, formal,
   formalist, formalistic, formulary, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy,
   goody good-good, goody-goody, grandiloquent, grandiose,
   grandisonant, hair-splitting, harmonious, high-flowing, high-flown,
   high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, impersonal, in accord,
   in keeping, in line, in step, inkhorn, kosher, labyrinthine,
   learned, legalistic, lexiphanic, literary, lofty, lurid,
   magniloquent, mandarin, meretricious, meticulous, mincing,
   namby-pamby, nit-picking, nominal, orotund, orthodox, ostentatious,
   outward, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overnice,
   overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, overwrought, owlish,
   pedagogic, pedantical, perfectionist, plastic, pompous, preachy,
   preceptorial, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic,
   precisionistic, pretentious, professorial, professorlike,
   punctilious, puristic, quibbling, rabbinic, rhetorical, scholarly,
   scholastic, schoolish, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish,
   schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy,
   schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, scrupulous, sensational,
   sensationalistic, sententious, showy, simpering, sonorous, square,
   stiff, stilted, straight, studious, stuffy, stylized, superficial,
   surface, tall, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tortuous,
   traditionalist, tutorial, uptight, vain

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Pedantic Gibberish
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Dictionary.com/pedantic
...pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic.. These adjectives mean marked by a.....a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary.....pedantic.. adj : marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial..
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sane-devel: remove option -pedantic from standard gcc options?
...remove option -pedantic from standard gcc options? From: Jochen Eisinger (jochen.eisinger.....By default, configure invokes gcc with option -pedantic, which produces .. some senseless.....remove option -pedantic from standard gcc options?" Reply: Petter Reinholdtsen: "Re..
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Dictionary.com/pedantic
...pedantic, academic, bookish, donnish, scholastic.. These adjectives mean marked by a.....a pedantic writing style; an academic insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary.....pedantic.. adj : marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial..
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Sam Ruby: Pedantic Web
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goats: The Pub forum: +1, Pedantic?
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sane-devel: Re: remove option -pedantic from standard gcc optio
...remove option -pedantic from standard gcc options? From: Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.....Maybe we should add another option like --with-pedantic to .. > configure, or IMO better.....remove option -pedantic from standard gcc options?" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread..
http://www.sane-project.org/old-archive/2000-10/0150.html, score=53, date indexed=February 20, 2005, 1:38 am

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