English-Thai Dictionary

pedantry

N การ ชอบ อวดรู้  การ ชอบ อวดภูมิ  kan-chob-aud-ru

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PEDANTRY

n.Vain ostentation of learning; a boastful display of knowledge of any kind. Horace has enticed me into this pedantry of quotation.
Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PEDANTRY

Ped "ant *ry, n. Etym: [Cf. F. pédanterie.]

 

Defn: The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation. " Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pedantry

ped ant ry |ˈpedntrē ˈpedntri | ▶noun excessive concern with minor details and rules: to object to this is not mere pedantry.

 

Oxford Dictionary

pedantry

pedantry |ˈpɛd (ə )ntri | ▶noun [ mass noun ] excessive concern with minor details and rules: to object to this is not mere pedantry.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

pedantry

pedantry noun the pedantry in her argument has upset the flow of our discussion: dogmatism, purism, literalism, formalism; overscrupulousness, scrupulousness, perfectionism, fastidiousness, punctiliousness, meticulousness; captiousness, quibbling, hair-splitting, casuistry, sophistry; informal nitpicking. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See knowledge . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

pedantry

pedantry noun 1 keeping the two distinct is more than mere pedantry: dogmatism, purism, literalism, formalism; overscrupulousness, scrupulousness, precision, exactness, perfectionism, fastidiousness, punctiliousness, meticulousness, finickiness, finicality; captiousness, quibbling, hair-splitting, fault-finding, cavilling, carping, casuistry, sophistry; informal nitpicking; archaic pettifogging, pettifoggery. 2 the book lacks the creaking pedantry of many such works: pretentiousness, pomposity, pompousness, dullness, tedium; intellectualism, academicism, scholasticism, scholarliness, erudition, studiousness, didacticism, bookishness, pedagogism, donnishness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

pedantry

ped ant ry /péd (ə )ntri /名詞 U ｟けなして ｠規律にうるさいこと ; 細かいこと ; 学者ぶること .