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Antonyms for pedantic
pəˈdæn tɪkpedan·tic
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term pedantic.
Wiktionary
pedanticadjective
Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
Synonyms:
anal-retentive, nit-picky, fussypedanticadjective
Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
Synonyms:
nit-picky, anal-retentive, fussypedanticadjective
Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
Synonyms:
fussy, anal-retentive, nit-pickypedanticadjective
Synonyms:
nit-picky, pedagogical, ostentatious, pretentiouspedanticadjective
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
pedantic
Antonyms:
unaffected, slipshodSynonyms:
pedagogical, priggish
Princeton's WordNet
academic, donnish, pedanticadjective
marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
Antonyms:
unscholarly
How to use pedantic in a sentence?
Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.
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