pedantic Definition

donnish, scholarly, academic, pretentious, pompous, obtuse, humorless, pernickety, wordy, prolix, priggish, didactic, preachy, nitpicky, tiresome, ponderous, schoolmasterly, verbose, tedious, legalistic, erudite, fastidious, sanctimonious, trite, silly, officious, dogmatic, flippant, prissy, sarcastic, fatuous, highfalutin, cynical, supercilious, egotistical, judgmental, longwinded, rebarbative, sententious, condescending, glib, unpoetic, reductive, pedantize, melodramatic, florid, turgid, abstruse, overdetermined, dull, censorious, overfamiliar, overwrought, polemical, talky, tendentious, shavian, mawkish, puerile, droll, aphoristic, digressive, sophistic, tricksy, banal, philistine, punctilious, waspish, maudlin, wearisome, jejune, discursive, unentertaining, ungifted, orotund, schoolboyish, unenlightening, moralistic, expository, hyperbolic, formulaic, sniffy, curmudgeonly, passionless, nabokovian, sesquipedalian, effete, amusing, recondite, dotty, hackneyed, jesuitical, twee, crass, daft, tautological, cloying, dispassionate, gnomic, captious,