Word of the Day: Pedantic

pe-dan-tic / pi-ˈdan-tik

adjective

1. of or relating to a person who makes a show of knowledge

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

A.A. Gill, 1954-2016

2. ostentation in one’s learning

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist – these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent-minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

Alberto Manguel, 1948-

3. overly concerned with minutiae or formalism

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness.

Niklaus Wirth, 1934-

4. dull; unimaginative

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536