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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bookish, precise |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
| Antonyms: | imprecise, informal |
| Main Entry: | pedantical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pedantic |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, formalistic, fussy, hairsplitting, inkhorn, learned, literary, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
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