English to French Meaning of pedantic - pédant

Pedantic :

pédant

adjective

pédant, bleu, fanatique, orthodoxe, puritain

Pedantic :: pédant

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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 ::

pédale de frein

(2) clutch pedal ::

pédale d'embrayage

(3) foot pedal ::

pédale

(4) pedal boat ::

pédalo

(5) accelerator pedal ::

pédale d'accélérateur

(6) pedal bin ::

poubelle à pédale

(7) shift pedal ::

la pédale de changement de vitesse

(8) pedal power ::

puissance de la pédale

Synonyms

Adjective

1. overscrupulous ::

scrupuleux

2. scrupulous ::

scrupuleux

3. precise ::

précis

4. exact ::

exact

6. punctilious ::

pointilleux

7. meticulous ::

méticuleux

8. fussy ::

difficile

9. fastidious ::

délicat

10. finicky ::

pointilleux

11. dogmatic ::

dogmatique

12. purist ::

puriste

18. sophistic ::

sophiste

20. captious ::

chicanier

21. hair-splitting ::

ergotage

24. persnickety ::

persnickety

Different Forms

pedantic

Word Example from TV Shows

You find me finicky, PEDANTIC and annoying.

The Big Bang Theory Season 7, Episode 2

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

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