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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pedantic /pɪˈdantɪk/

▶adjective of or like a pedant.

– derivatives
pedantically adverb.

'pedantic' also found in these Oxford entries:

chop - donnish - doryphore - lucubration - nit-picking - pedagogue - scholastic

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