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donnish

[don-ish] / ˈdɒn ɪʃ /

ADJECTIVE

didactic

Synonyms

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academic advisory edifying enlightening exhortative expository homiletic hortative instructive moral moralizing pedagogic pedantic preachy preceptive schoolmasterist sermonic sermonizing teacherish teacherly teachy

ADJECTIVE

didactical

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didactic homiletic homiletical lecturelike moralizing pedantic pedantical preachy

ADJECTIVE

inkhorn

Synonyms

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abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting learned literary nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic pedantical pompous priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious stilted

ADJECTIVE

pedantic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abstruse pompous stilted

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academic arid didactic doctrinaire dry dull egotistic erudite formal fussy hairsplitting learned nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious

Antonyms

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plain simple

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imprecise informal

ADJECTIVE

pedantical

Synonyms

WEAK

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting inkhorn learned literary nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic pompous priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious stilted