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   pedantic

   /pɪˈdantɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous: "his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic" Similar overscrupulousscrupulouspreciseexactover-exactingperfectionistprecisionistpunctiliousmeticulousfussyfastidiousfinicalfinickydogmaticpuristliteralistliteralisticformalistscholasticcasuisticcasuisticalsophisticsophisticalcaptioushair-splittingquibblingpettifoggingfault-findinghypercriticalcavillingcarpinginformal:nitpickingpernicketypersnicketyarchaic:overnicelearnedcerebraldidacticbookishpedagogicdonnishhighbrowivory-towerpretentiouspompousintellectualacademicscholasticscholarlyliteraryinformal:egghead

   Derivatives

   • 1. pedantically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • D

     2

   • A

     1

   • N

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   • T

     1

   • I

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   • C

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