pə̇ˈdantik, -daan-, -tēk adjective
Etymology: pedant + -ic
: marked by pedantry: as
a. : ostentatiously learned
the pedantic style, the profuse classical quotations — J.R.Green
b. : narrowly academic
the intellectual life that remained came to be pedantic … rather than humane and broad — J.T.Adams
c. : unimaginative , pedestrian
dull pedantic minds — Lewis Mumford
d. : excessively meticulous
a pedantic speaker — G.A.Kennedy
e. : formalistic
the living Bach as opposed to the dry and pedantic Bach — A.E.Wier
• pe·dan·ti·cal·ly -tə̇k(ə)lē, -tēk-, -li adverb