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Word "PEDANTIC" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
Synonyms:
academic, donnish

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Hair-splitting makes Ted panic Downawfully (8)
Picky, precise The Telegraph Quick 14 Jul 2025
Petty intellectual
Literal-minded (8) Puzzler 09 May 2025
Another tip - dance is too formal (8)
Fond of nit-picking The Telegraph Quick 21 Mar 2025
Meticulous exercise by head of department, on a foolish escapade
Overly exact (8)
Unusual portrayal of Dante in picture is stilted (8)
Insistently precise (8)
Too detail-oriented
Fussily precise (8)
Washington taking against following games in particular The Telegraph Toughie 20 Nov 2024
Insisting on accuracy, with film about Italian poet being back to front
Overly concerned with rules and details (8)
Hoped to have the House go against Conservative hairsplitting The Times Cryptic 11 Sep 2024
Schoolmasterly; fussy as to speech (8)
Depict an injury as overly precise (8)
Schoolmasterly pen, and cad it converted (8)
Nice muscle covering girl boxing soldier, perhaps The Telegraph Toughie 19 Jun 2024
Ted in a panic tends to become schoolmasterly (8)
Precise and particular
Overly exact constable to detain awkwardly inside (8)
Schoolmasterly (8)
Making an excessive show of learning
Insistent on formal rules
Typical of a know-all, I see (8)
Hair-splitting makes Ted panic awfully (8)
Over concerned with correctness, engineer cited a new paper at first (8)
Making an excessive show of the rules of language (8)
Like the grammar police New York Times 25 Jun 2022
Nit-picking The Telegraph Quick 24 Jul 2021
Dance tip sort of formal
Overly fussy writer with a selection of good books in photo Irish Times Crosaire 03 Jun 2020
Over-concerned with minor details Irish Times Simplex 10 Feb 2020
Like teacher, editor and social worker featured in illustration The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Nov 2019
Excessively scrupulous The Telegraph Quick 20 Sep 2019
Pompous prince, tad unhinged, kills dissenter at last
Nit-picking Universal 16 Sep 2018
Hung up on minor academic details The Chronicle of Higher Education 14 Sep 2018
. Academic, losing head, copied trick
Particular doctor painted on canvas, primarily
Hung up on minor academic details
Nit-picking
Dance pit built by finicky sort Irish Times Crosaire 27 Nov 2017
Movingly depict an academic The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Oct 2017
Italian poet back to front in photo, like 21
Overly concerned with minor details Irish Times Simplex 20 Mar 2017
Like a schoolmaster punishing inept cad The Telegraph Toughie 28 Feb 2017
Overly focused on minor rules LA Times Daily 01 Feb 2017
Over-concerned with details The Times Concise 26 Sep 2016
Political correctness drowning confused date in nit-picking The Telegraph Toughie 04 Dec 2015
Like a smug know-it-all Premier Sunday 11 Oct 2015
Pernickety poet finally coming to the fore in film
Daughter participating in exercises and frolic, following strict patterns
Punctilious poet's raised foot above head in photo
Overly fussy editor, under pressure, opposed to chapter The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Feb 2015
Like a smug know-it-all
Fussy editor opposed to interrupting law officer
Pretentious in one's teaching
Doctrinaire
Ostentatious, academically
Narrow-minded, as a teacher
Schoolmasterish.
Ostentatious of learning.
Overscholarly.
Narrow-minded.
Pretentiously learned.
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