pedantic

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pe‧dan‧tic/pɪˈdæntɪk/ adjective
paying too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details
pedantic about
　 ▪ Some people can be very pedantic about punctuation.

—pedantically /-kli/ adverb

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Don't be so pedantic - does it really matter if I don't pronounce it right?
▪ Her book is informative and scholarly, but never pedantic.
▪ The booklet that accompanies the CD is informative and scholarly, without being pedantic.
▪ The papers wre stacked with pedantic neatness on his desk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it's in everyone's interest to ensure that any new test is not unnecessarily time-consuming, expensive and pedantic.
▪ But trying to find an exact replica of the Virginia garden would be a pedantic exercise.
▪ D'Arquebus Senior's pedantic excuses made no sense.
▪ He seemed to display a certain insensitivity in these cases - an impression enhanced by his somewhat pedantic way of speech.
▪ It demonstrates that more can be achieved by bringing together a mass of illustration than many a pedantic thesis.
▪ It has cloaked it in pedantic, complicated, incomprehensible language which is also quite inappropriate.
▪ To commonplace actions he brought a special pedantic awkwardness.
▪ Yet in his exacting, almost pedantic manner, he was convinced that it would happen.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  academic, donnish