Pedantic

[pe·dan·tic]

There's nothing wrong with focusing on the details, but someone who is pedantic makes a big display of knowing obscure facts and details.

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Adjective S.
marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects


a.
Alt. of Pedantical


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Usage Examples

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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Other Usage Examples

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

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