adjective. Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a pedant or pedantry; overrating the importance of mere learning; also, making an undue or inappropriate display of learning; of language, style, etc., exhibiting pedantry; absurdly learned: as, a pedantic air.

adjective. Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning

adjective. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

adjective. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.

adjective. Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.

adjective. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

"Ha, true, but then we'd have to argue over, since it's not just normal pedantic but * super pedantic*, whether my argument-escape-hatch/weasel words 'pretty close' cover my ass."

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pedantical  scholarly  

Atlantic  Romantic  antic  frantic  gigantic  

absurd  arrogant  boastful  dogmatic  formal  

Gongoresque  Johnsonian  academic  accordant  affected