English to Afrikaans Meaning of pedantic - pedanties

Pedantic :

pedanties

adjective

pedanties, schoolvossig, blou, fanatiese, ortodokse, bevooroordeelde, puriteinse

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Definitions of pedantic in English

Adjective(1) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Examples of pedantic in English

(1) Sorry to be pedantic but it really irked me for some reason.(2) Being a pedantic word-lover, and yes, a feminist, this drives me berserk.(3) Some companies don't like dealing with this inspector because they say he's draconian and pedantic .(4) Perhaps this is the wrong forum on which to be so pedantic , but this is something that has bothered me for a while.(5) The past few articles I have written for this site have been pedantic responses to articles written by others.(6) I had the same middle parted haircut for eight years, and I was quite pedantic about this being perfect.(7) Cricket has a reputation for its confusing, pedantic rules.(8) I have language skills, I'm pedantic to stupendous heights, computer literate and I can fire and strip a pistol.(9) You can be too pedantic about grammar and pronunciation and you can probably tell from this that spelling is a problem for me, especially when typing.(10) There's simply no way around the system: it's pedantic , laboured and mind-numbingly frustrating.(11) Long-winded sentences and pedantic phraseology have yielded place to brief reports.(12) In order not to sound too didactic or pedantic , the lecturer added anecdotes and personal comments.(13) My dictionary defines a pedagogue as a pedantic or dogmatic teacher and there is a lot of that about Waters.(14) At this point, the auteur's films felt fairly strained and pedantic .(15) Well you could say it's a deal of nitpicking by pedantic scientists over detail.(16) For years, pedantic scholars have crowed about the debt rock owes the blues.

(1) brake pedal ::

briekpedaal

(2) clutch pedal ::

koppelaarpedaal

(3) foot pedal ::

voetpedaal

(4) pedal boat ::

trapbootjie

(5) accelerator pedal ::

versnellerpedaal

(6) pedal bin ::

pedaal bin

(7) shift pedal ::

verskuiwing pedaal

(8) pedal power ::

pedal power

Synonyms

Adjective

1. overscrupulous ::

overscrupulous

2. scrupulous ::

deurdagte

3. precise ::

presiese

4. exact ::

presiese

6. punctilious ::

punctilious

7. meticulous ::

noukeurige

8. fussy ::

Fussy

9. fastidious ::

kieskeurige

10. finicky ::

kieskeurig

11. dogmatic ::

dogmatiese

12. purist ::

puristiese

18. sophistic ::

sophistisch

20. captious ::

captious

21. hair-splitting ::

haarkloverij

24. persnickety ::

abstracter

Different Forms

pedantic

Word Example from TV Shows

That was me being PEDANTIC.

The Big Bang Theory Season 5, Episode 14

Okay. Not to be PEDANTIC, the last I checked...

The Big Bang Theory Season 3, Episode 7

You find me finicky, PEDANTIC and annoying.

The Big Bang Theory Season 7, Episode 2

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