Antonyms for pedantic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : puh-dan-tik

Phonetic Transcription : pəˈdæn tɪk

Definition of pedantic

Origin : formed in English c.1600, from pedant + -ic. The French equivalent is pédantesque. Perhaps first attested in John Donne's "Sunne Rising," where he bids the morning sun let his love and him linger in bed, telling it, "Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide Late schooleboyes." Related: Pedantical (1580s); pedantically.

adj bookish, precise

Example sentences :

"The facts are as follows," replied Tibby, who had at times a pedantic lucidity.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

Anything that savors of the pedantic is to be strictly avoided.
Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper

Suffice to say that Bach is pedantic when compared to Mozart, and Beethoven unbeautiful.
Extract from : « Old Fogy » by James Huneker

"He related to us his whole life," rejoined she, in a pedantic tone.
Extract from : « Samuel Brohl & Company » by Victor Cherbuliez

In his pedantic way he began to tell her the story of Jeanne, so far as he knew it.
Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke

Yet his voice when he spoke was the same dry, pedantic voice of old.
Extract from : « A Question of Courage » by Jesse Franklin Bone

His object, he professed, was "to corrupt the pedantic city."
Extract from : « The Huguenots in France » by Samuel Smiles.

He encountered some of the most pedantic of them while residing at Lausanne and Geneva.
Extract from : « The Huguenots in France » by Samuel Smiles.

I have known this word more than once objected to as pedantic.
Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 » by George Saintsbury

But it is evident on the whole, that he bore no good will to this pedantic novelty.
Extract from : « Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth » by Lucy Aikin

Synonyms for pedantic

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