PEDANTIC

Meaning of PEDANTIC in English

[ pɪ'dantɪk ]

■ adjective of or like a pedant.

Derivatives

~ally adverb

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

PEDANTIC — adjective Date: circa 1600 of, relating to, or being a pedant, narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned, unimaginative, pedestrian , …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PEDANTIC — pə̇ˈdantik, -daan-, -tēk adjective Etymology: pedant + -ic : marked by pedantry: as a. : ostentatiously learned the pedantic style, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — (a.) Alt. of Pedantical
Английский словарь Webster
PEDANTIC — ( a. ) Alt. of Pedantical
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — — pedantically , adv. — pedanticalness , n. /peuh dan"tik/ , adj. 1. ostentatious in one's learning. 2. overly concerned …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — adj. meticulous; strict, fussy; adhering strictly to information in books without using common sense
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PEDANTIC — adjective Date: circa 1600 1. : of, relating to, or being a pedant 2. : narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — adj ·alt. of pedantical.
Webster English vocab
PEDANTIC — [pe.dan.tic] adj (ca. 1600) 1: of, relating to, or being a pedant 2: narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned 3: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PEDANTIC — pedantic BrE AmE pɪ ˈdænt ɪk pə-, pe- AmE \ -ˈdæn t̬ ɪk ▷ pedantic|ally ə l‿i
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — / pɪˈdæntɪk; NAmE / adjective ( disapproving ) too worried about small details or rules ► pe·dan·tic·al·ly / -kli; NAmE …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — pe ‧ dan ‧ tic /pɪˈdæntɪk/ BrE AmE adjective paying too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PEDANTIC — If you think someone is pedantic , you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — If you think someone is ~, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PEDANTIC — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Don't be so pedantic - does it really matter if I don't pronounce it …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — [adjective] [disapproving]They were being unnecessarily pedantic (= giving too much attention to formal rules or small details) by insisting that …
Cambridge English vocab
PEDANTIC — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — adj. Function: adjective too narrowly concerned with scholarly matters FF1C; intellectual life that was pedantic rather than broad and humane …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
PEDANTIC — a. ; ( also ~al ) Conceited, pragmatical, vain of knowledge, ostentatious of learning, over-learned, pedagogic, pedagogical, priggish, pompous, stilted.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
PEDANTIC — adjective too narrowly concerned with scholarly matters intellectual life that was pedantic rather than broad and humane Synonyms: academic, bookish, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — See ↑ DETAIL 8
Longman Activator English vocab
PEDANTIC — adj. 25B6; adjective OVER-SCRUPULOUS, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist; casuistic, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PEDANTIC — adj. 1 didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, pedagogic, pedantical, preachy, professorial, bookish, ostentatious, pretentious, sententious, pompous, vain, stuffy, stilted, stiff, dry A …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
PEDANTIC — прил. педантичный Syn : fault-finding a педантичный pedantic педантичный
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PEDANTIC — Педантичный
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PEDANTIC — pedantic.ogg pıʹdæntık,-pıʹdæntık(ə)l a педантичный
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PEDANTIC — педантичный
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PEDANTIC — (a) педантичный
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
PEDANTIC — a педантичный
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PEDANTIC — прил. педантичный Syn : fault-finding a педантичный pedantic педантичный
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
PEDANTIC — adj. Pronunciation: pi- ' dan-tik Function: adjective Date: circa 1600 1 : of, relating to, or being a pedant 2 …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PEDANTIC — a педантичный
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PEDANTIC — adj. педантичный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PEDANTIC — adj. педантичный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PEDANTIC — прил. педантичный Syn: fault-finding
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
PEDANTIC — прил. педантичный Syn: fault-finding
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
PEDANTIC — _a. педантичный _Syn: fault-finding
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
PEDANTIC — a. педантичный Syn: fault-finding
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
PEDANTIC — _a. педантичный
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
PEDANTIC — [adj.] педантичный
Morteza English-Russian Dictionary
PEDANTIC — a педантичный
Англо-Русский словарь - Королев
PEDANTIC — педантичный
English-Russian Online Dictionary
PEDANTIC — педантичный
English-Russian vocab
PEDANTIC — педантичный
Англо-Русский словарь

Concise Oxford English vocab

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