PEDANTIC


Meaning of PEDANTIC in English

pe ‧ dan ‧ tic /pɪˈdæntɪk/ BrE AmE adjective

paying too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details

pedantic about

Some people can be very pedantic about punctuation.

—pedantically /-kli/ adverb

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.