pedantically

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{a} in a pedantic manner
in a pedantic manner; "these interpretations are called `schemas' or, more pedantically, `schemata'"
in the manner of strictly adhering to information in books without using common sense; meticulously, fastidiously; strictly
in a pedantic manner; "these interpretations are called `schemas' or, more pedantically, `schemata'
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A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary
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A teacher or schoolmaster

I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.

pedantic
Being finicky or fastidious with language
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Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner
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a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning
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{n} one vainly ostentatious of learning
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{a} like a pedant, conceited, vain, proud
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a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
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A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
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A schoolmaster; a pedagogue
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One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge
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disapproval If you say that someone is a pedant, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects. I am no pedant and avoid being dogmatic concerning English grammar and expression. someone who pays too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details, especially someone who criticizes other people in an extremely annoying way (pédant, from pedante, perhaps from paedagogus; PEDAGOGY)
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{i} meticulous person, fastidious person; strict person, fussy person; person who strictly adheres to information in books without using common sense
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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
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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
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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]
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formal and uninspired; making a vain display of learning
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Often used to describe a person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary; ostentatious in one's learning
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Being finicky or picky with language
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Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
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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
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Obsessive insistence or sureness that things or persons will or do conform to words exactly as they have been written
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Describes a story in which the moral or message the author wants to teach overwhelms the plot
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Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner
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marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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{s} meticulous; strict, fussy; adhering strictly to information in books without using common sense
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