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pedanticpe‧dan‧tic /pɪˈdæntɪk/ adjective   - Don't be so pedantic - does it really matter if I don't pronounce it right?
- Her book is informative and scholarly, but never pedantic.
- The booklet that accompanies the CD is informative and scholarly, without being pedantic.
- The papers wre stacked with pedantic neatness on his desk.
- But it's in everyone's interest to ensure that any new test is not unnecessarily time-consuming, expensive and pedantic.
- But trying to find an exact replica of the Virginia garden would be a pedantic exercise.
- D'Arquebus Senior's pedantic excuses made no sense.
- He seemed to display a certain insensitivity in these cases - an impression enhanced by his somewhat pedantic way of speech.
- It demonstrates that more can be achieved by bringing together a mass of illustration than many a pedantic thesis.
- It has cloaked it in pedantic, complicated, incomprehensible language which is also quite inappropriate.
- To commonplace actions he brought a special pedantic awkwardness.
- Yet in his exacting, almost pedantic manner, he was convinced that it would happen.
too concerned with small details► pedantic too concerned with rules and details that most people do not think are important: · Don't be so pedantic - does it really matter if I don't pronounce it right?· The papers were stacked with pedantic neatness on his desk.· The booklet that accompanies the CD is informative and scholarly, without being pedantic. ► fussy someone who is fussy is too concerned with unimportant details of correctness, neatness, comfort etc and is hard to please: · My grandmother was a notoriously fussy housekeeper.· Although he spent three years writing these songs, the album does not sound fussy or labored.fussy about: · He's very fussy about his drinks being served in the right kind of glass. paying too much attention to rules or to small unimportant detailspedantic about Some people can be very pedantic about punctuation.—pedantically /-kli/ adverb |