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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pedantic \Pe*dan"tic\, Pedantical \Pe*dan"tic*al\, 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]

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

Moby Dictionary
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