Meanings (ES + gloss)
pedante • pedantesco • pretencioso
Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
pedante • pedantesco
Tending to show off one’s knowledge, often in a tiresome manner.
The style is pedantic and reviewish: but I can easily fancy states of mind to which it may be no less salutary on that account.
They had heard people call things pedantic, which they did not think were so ; for instance, a boy had once said that Harry himself was a pedant, for talking of the siege of Syracu…
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