pedantically
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8.2
- adverb
- /pɪˈdæn.tɪ.kli/
:
pedantemente
- Todd, at eighty-one, thanks for pedantically alerting us to Grace's rather minor technical language faults.
- say pedantically
Examples
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The professor was known for his pedantically detailed lectures that often lost the attention of his students.
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As befitted a former math teacher, he was pedantically accurate.
Fiction book (1996) -
That said, a concise but somewhat imprecise title is often better than a much longer, pedantically correct version.
Blog text (26) -
Many scholars, historians, and philosophers have pedantically parsed it.
Blog text (18) -
He wanted to get a better bead on the writer, and with his clipped, patrician, pedantically Oxford accent, he asked me, "Is the prose Georgian or experimental, old man?"
Fiction book (2000) -
Ken, I know you know this, but I always feel pedantically compelled to point out that the "Twinkie defense" was not that the satanic snack food drove Dan White into a killing frenzy with high-fructose corn syrup.
Blog text (29) -
During the debate, he pedantically focused on the incorrect use of commas instead of discussing the main arguments.
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She pedantically corrected everyone's grammar throughout the meeting, which annoyed her colleagues.
Synonyms
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9.2
In a very fussy way about small details
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7.3
In a way that pays too much attention to small details
In a very proper and fussy way
Antonyms
How Pedantic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pedantically comes from the word pedant, which originally meant a strict teacher and is related to pedagogue and the paed- in pediatric that means 'child'. So to act pedantically is to behave like a teacher who cares too much about small rules and details.