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pedantical

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It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations.

“I fear I was sadly pedantical,” said I, overcome with confusion at the memory.

I do not think that success will come by a pedantical insistence upon correctness in form without regard to the sense.

There remain two appendices touching the tradition of knowledge, the one critical, the other pedantical.

Mountebank, with thy pedantical action—Rimatrix, Bugloss, Rhinoceros!

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pedantical, such as: abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, and doctrinaire.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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