Advanced 📚 Vocabulary · #666 of 1319

pedantic (adj.)

overly concerned with details

Examples

  • A pedantic teacher.

Key rules

  • Pedantic means overly concerned with small rules or details
  • A pedantic teacher, pedantic rules
  • Pedantry is the noun
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