pedantic meaning - Google Search

pedantic meaning - Google Searchpedantic

pɪˈdantɪk/

adjective

1. excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.

   "his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic"

   synonyms:

   overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, over-exacting, perfectionist,precisionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist, scholastic;  casuistic,casuistical, sophistic, sophistical;  captious, hair-splitting, quibbling,pettifogging, fault-finding, hypercritical, cavilling, carping; informalnitpicking, pernickety;  archaicovernice