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What does pedantic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  2. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
  3. Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
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If you're being pedantic, I suppose this makes it more of an open sandwich, but in my book the mozzarella and pepperoni qualify it as pizza.
It's always nice to know that there are people out there who are even more pedantic than myself.
Most contemporary Baptists would find a sermon like this ponderous and pedantic.
Without being stilted or pedantic about it, Sontag sums up the history of stagecraft back to the Elizabethans.
But the wedding with its pedantic, rural nuptial dance winding along the landscape in middle distance with no visible musicians looks very twee.
Call me a pedantic, stubborn, value for money freak, but don't call me unhearing.

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