Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PEDANTIC, PEDANTICAL

a.Ostentatious of learning; vainly displaying or making a show of knowledge; applied to persons or things; as a pedantic writer or scholar; a pedantic description or expression.

 

PEDANTICALLY

adv. With a vain or boastful display of learning.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PEDANTIC; PEDANTICAL

PEDANTIC; PEDANTICAL Pe *dan "tic, Pe *dan "tic *al, a.

 

Defn: 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.

 

PEDANTICALLY

PEDANTICALLY Pe *dan "tic *al *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a pedantic manner.

 

PEDANTICLY

PEDANTICLY Pe *dan "tic *ly, adv.

 

Defn: Pedantically. [R.]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pedantic

pe dan tic |pəˈdantik pəˈdæn (t )ɪk | ▶adjective of or like a pedant: many of the essays are long, dense, and too pedantic to hold great appeal. DERIVATIVES pe dan ti cal ly |-tik (ə )lē |adverb

 

Oxford Dictionary

pedantic

pe ¦dan |tic |pɪˈdantɪk | ▶adjective excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous: his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic. DERIVATIVES pedantically adverb

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

pedantic

pedantic adjective a pedantic interpretation of the rules: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist; casuistic, casuistical, sophistic, sophistical; captious, hair-splitting, quibbling; informal nitpicking, persnickety.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

pedantic

pedantic adjective 1 a pedantic interpretation of the rules: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, over-exacting, perfectionist, precisionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist, scholastic; casuistic, casuistical, sophistic, sophistical; captious, hair-splitting, quibbling, pettifogging, fault-finding, hypercritical, cavilling, carping; informal nitpicking, pernickety; archaic overnice. 2 pedantic words like ‘irriguous ’: learned, cerebral, didactic, bookish, pedagogic, donnish, highbrow, ivory-tower, pretentious, pompous; intellectual, academic, scholastic, scholarly, literary; informal egghead.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

pedantic

pe dan tic /pɪdǽntɪk /形容詞 ｟けなして ｠〈人が 〉規律にうるさい ; 細かい ; 学者ぶった .pe d á n ti cal ly /-k (ə )li /副詞