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pedanticadjective marked by or given to showing knowledge in a showy wayThe writing was overly complex and pedantic, which made it nearly impossible to understand for anyone but a specialist. The speech was thoroughly researched and well structured, but too pedantic to appeal to a general audience. inkhorndidactic, high-toned, hyperintellectualhigh-hat, snobbish, snobby, snootyaffected, grandiose, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-minded, la-di-da(also la-de-da or lah-de-dah or lah-dee-dah or lah-di-dah), ostentatious, pompouserudite, learned, literate, polyhistoric, polymath(or polymathic), scholarly, scholastic, well-readacademic(also academical), bookish, professorialbrainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smartblue, cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired(or longhair), nerdish, nerdyeducated, schooledcultivated, cultured anti-intellectual, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistineignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unreaduncultivated, uncultured causing weariness or lack of interestI found the author's writing informative but dreadfully pedantic. arid, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, prosaic, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, undramatic, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearyingtwice-toldbromidic, platitudinal, platitudinouscanned, cardboard, conventional, cookie-cutter, derivative, imitative, ready-made, tried-and-true, unimaginative, uninspired, unoriginalnormal, ordinary, rote, routine, standard, stock, typical, usualold-fashioned, old hatbanal, cliché(also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn amusing, diverting, entertainingalluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinatingmesmerizing, spellbindingsuspensefularresting, provocative, tantalizingabsorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, rivetinganimating, energizing, enlivening, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, stimulatingpathbreaking, pioneering, trailblazingfresh, new, novel, original, unclichéd, unhackneyed in 1628 |