pedantic 的定义
- ostentatious in one's learning.
- overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.
pedantic 近义词
bookish, precise
更多pedantic例句
- These details can sound pedantic, but they can make a huge difference in day-to-day use.
- The pedantic scholars among us might wonder if the book does its job.
- The pedantic type might note that Hippolytus makes no prophetic mention of the cinema or the Internet.
- The drinks here, like the Blackwatch (with Johnny Walker Black, creme de cassis, and Becherovka), are far from pedantic.
- The problem was that Sorkin did too much (pedantic, predictable) telling and not enough showing.
- Her perfection can sometimes verge on pedantic, like with her conversion to veganism.
- Pedantic, unimaginative and presumptuous, Theobald was the logical choice for a Dunce King in 1728.
- A pedantic fellow called for a bottle of hock at a tavern, which the waiter, not hearing distinctly, asked him to repeat.
- He is no longer pedantic; he no longer makes vulgar allusions, but only fears that they might be made.
- The ages in which they flourished attached no value to pedantic displays of learning paraded in foot-notes.
- There was Sir James Smith, the botanist, made much of and really not pedantic and vulgar like the rest, but weak and irritable.