| ADJECTIVE | all | pedantic, academic, donnish | marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects |
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| Sounds | pahdae'ntihk | |
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| Rhymes | academic ... Zurich: 733 rhymes with ihk... | |
| Meaning | marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects. | |
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| Synonyms | academic, donnish | |
| Broader | scholarly | characteristic of scholars or scholarship |
| Spanish | pedante | |
| Catalan | pedant | |
| Nouns | pedant | a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit |
| pedantry | an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | |
| Adverbs | pedantically | in a pedantic manner |
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