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Synonyms for Pedantical:
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adj.
• didactical • inkhorn- more formalistic ,
- more hairsplitting ,
- more nit picking ,
- more nit-picking ,
- more overnice ,
- more schoolish ,
- most formalistic ,
- most hairsplitting ,
- most nit-picking ,
- most overnice ,
- most schoolish ,
- nit picking ,
- over nice .
Other synonyms:
- Inkhorn ,
- donnish ,
- formalistic .
- literary ,
- pedantic ,
- scholastic .
Other relevant words:
- academician ,
- airless ,
- artificial ,
- bad-tempered ,
- ball ,
- benumb ,
- besotted ,
- blackbeard ,
- blind drunk ,
- blotto ,
- blunt ,
- bookworm ,
- bootless ,
- boring ,
- buckram ,
- busy ,
- cadaver ,
- ceremonious ,
- clay ,
- close ,
- cockeyed ,
- compromising ,
- conceited ,
- conciliatory ,
- conditioned ,
- contrived ,
- conventional ,
- corpse ,
- courtly ,
- crabbed ,
- crabby ,
- crocked ,
- cross ,
- dainty ,
- damp ,
- dampen ,
- deadening ,
- deep ,
- dense ,
- desiccate ,
- desiccated ,
- detail ,
- dim ,
- dinner dress ,
- dinner gown ,
- dogmatist ,
- dry out ,
- dumb ,
- egotistical ,
- elastic ,
- especial ,
- evening gown ,
- exceptional ,
- faculty member ,
- finespun ,
- finical ,
- finicky ,
- firm ,
- flexile ,
- formalised ,
- formalized ,
- fruitless ,
- fuddled ,
- futile ,
- grandiloquent ,
- grouchy ,
- grumpy ,
- ho-hum ,
- hokey ,
- ill-tempered ,
- instruct ,
- ironic ,
- ironical ,
- item ,
- juiceless ,
- knowing ,
- knowledgeable ,
- leaden ,
- learn ,
- lettered ,
- loaded ,
- mental attitude ,
- meticulous ,
- muffle ,
- muffled ,
- mute ,
- muted ,
- narcissistic ,
- nice ,
- numb ,
- obtuse ,
- overblown ,
- pall ,
- particular proposition ,
- peculiar ,
- pedagogical ,
- picky ,
- pie-eyed ,
- pissed ,
- pithy ,
- pixilated ,
- plastered ,
- pliable ,
- pliant ,
- pontifical ,
- portentous ,
- position ,
- posture ,
- potent ,
- prim ,
- prissy ,
- prohibitionist ,
- prudish ,
- puritanical ,
- recondite ,
- remains ,
- rigid ,
- schematic ,
- self-conceited ,
- self-loving ,
- sleeveless ,
- slopped ,
- sloshed ,
- slow ,
- sluggish ,
- smashed ,
- soaked ,
- softened ,
- soused ,
- sozzled ,
- special ,
- specific ,
- square-toed ,
- squeamish ,
- squiffy ,
- starchy ,
- stately ,
- steadfast ,
- steady ,
- stiffly ,
- stodgy ,
- straight-laced ,
- straightlaced ,
- strait-laced ,
- straitlaced ,
- strong ,
- studious ,
- swollen ,
- swollen-headed ,
- tedious ,
- teetotal ,
- thatch ,
- thudding ,
- tight ,
- tight-laced ,
- tiresome ,
- tone down ,
- unaired ,
- unbendable ,
- unfaltering ,
- unshakable ,
- unwavering ,
- victorian ,
- waterless ,
- wearisome ,
- well-educated ,
- well-read ,
- wet ,
- whippy ,
- word-splitting ,
- wry ,
- abstruse ,
- arid ,
- attitude ,
- didactic ,
- didactical ,
- doctrinaire ,
- dry ,
- dull ,
- egotistic ,
- erudite ,
- flexible ,
- formal ,
- fussy ,
- hairsplitting ,
- learned ,
- nit-picking ,
- ostentatious ,
- overnice ,
- particular ,
- pedagogic ,
- pompous ,
- preachy ,
- pretentious ,
- priggish ,
- professorial ,
- punctilious ,
- schoolish ,
- sententious ,
- stiff ,
- stilted ,
- stuffy ,
- teach ,
- vain .
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What are the hypernyms for Pedantical?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
academic, artificial, conventional, scholarly, tedious, overly precise.
Usage examples for Pedantical
His comfortable view was that "the sensible and interesting conversations of a woman of merit are more proper to form a young man than all the Pedantical philosophy of books."
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
D. is quite unnecessary in order to be academic in this sense, just as one does not have to be a scholar in order to be Pedantical.
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