pedantic as an adjective: - 1
pedantic
adjective
1 pedantic
Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects.
synonyms: academic, donnish.
Roget 855:
affected,
full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted,
stagy,
theatrical,
big-sounding,
ad captandum;
canting,
insincere.
not natural,
unnatural;
self-conscious;
maniere;
artificial;
overwrought,
overdone,
overacted;
euphuist
etc.
577.
stiff,
starch,
formal,
prim,
smug,
demure,
tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified;
finical,
finikin;
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental.
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Roget 491:
ignorant;
nescient;
unknowing,
unaware,
unacquainted,
unapprised,
unapprized†,
unwitting,
unweeting†,
unconscious;
witless,
weetless†;
a stranger to;
unconversant†.
uninformed,
uncultivated,
unversed,
uninstructed,
untaught,
uninitiated,
untutored,
unschooled,
misguided,
unenlightened;
Philistine;
behind the age.
shallow,
superficial,
green,
rude,
empty,
half-learned,
illiterate;
unread,
uninformed,
uneducated,
unlearned,
unlettered,
unbookish;
empty-headed,
dizzy,
wooly-headed;
pedantic;
in the dark;
benighted,
belated;
blinded,
blindfolded;
hoodwinked;
misinformed;
au bout de son latin,
at the end of his tether,
at fault;
at sea
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
caught tripping.
unknown,
unapprehended,
unexplained,
unascertained,
uninvestigated†,
unexplored,
unheard of,
not perceived;
concealed
etc.
528;
novel.
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Roget 577:
ornament
etc.
v.;
beautified
etc.
847;
ornate,
florid,
rich,
flowery;
euphuistic†,
euphemistic;
sonorous;
high-sounding,
big-sounding;
inflated,
swelling,
tumid;
turgid,
turgescent;
pedantic,
pompous,
stilted;
orotund;
high flown,
high flowing;
sententious,
rhetorical,
declamatory;
grandiose;
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
altiloquent†;
sesquipedal†,
sesquipedalian;
Johnsonian,
mouthy;
bombastic;
fustian;
frothy,
flashy,
flaming.
antithetical,
alliterative;
figurative
etc.
521;
artificial
etc.
(inelegant)
579.
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Moby thesaurus: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, bookish, booky, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist, conventional, conventionalized, convoluted, corresponding, declamatory, devoted to studies, didactic, diligent, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dryasdust, dull, elegant, elevated, erudite, euphemistic, euphuistic, exact, exquisite, extrinsic, fastidious, finical, finicky, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, goody good-good, goody-goody, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, hair-splitting, harmonious, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, impersonal, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inkhorn, kosher, labyrinthine, learned, legalistic, lexiphanic, literary, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, mandarin, meretricious, meticulous, mincing, namby-pamby, nit-picking, nominal, orotund, orthodox, ostentatious, outward, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, overwrought, owlish, pedagogic, pedantical, perfectionist, plastic, pompous, preachy, preceptorial, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, professorial, professorlike, punctilious, puristic, quibbling, rabbinic, rhetorical, scholarly, scholastic, schoolish, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, scrupulous, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, simpering, sonorous, square, stiff, stilted, straight, studious, stuffy, stylized, superficial, surface, tall, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tortuous, traditionalist, tutorial, uptight, vain ... show more.
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