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单词 pedantic
释义 pe·dan·tic
\pə̇ˈdantik, -daan-, -tēk\ adjective
Etymology: pedant + -ic
: marked by pedantry: as
 a. : ostentatiously learned
  < the pedantic style, the profuse classical quotations — J.R.Green >
 b. : narrowly academic
  < the intellectual life that remained came to be pedantic … rather than humane and broad — J.T.Adams >
 c. : unimaginative, pedestrian
  < dull pedantic minds — Lewis Mumford >
 d. : excessively meticulous
  < a pedantic speaker — G.A.Kennedy >
 e. : formalistic
  < the living Bach as opposed to the dry and pedantic Bach — A.E.Wier >
pe·dan·ti·cal·ly \-tə̇k(ə)lē, -tēk-, -li\ adverb
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