Definitions
Overly concerned with small rules or academic details.
Word origin
From pedant + -ic.
Used in a sentence
“Bad news for a certain kind of pedantic patriot (look away now, Jacob Rees-Mogg). Prince Charles has debased the English language – and in a letter to a foreign potentate, no less.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
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