| Main Entry: | pedagogic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
Synonyms: |
academic, dogmatic, instructive, learned, professorial, profound, scholastic, teaching |
| Main Entry: | didactic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
Synonyms: |
academic, advisory, donnish, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, expository, homiletic, hortative, instructive, moral, moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, preceptive, schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly, teachy |
| Main Entry: | pedantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bookish, precise |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
Antonyms: |
imprecise, informal |
| Main Entry: | inkhorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pedantic |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, formalistic, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, literary, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pedantical, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
| Main Entry: | pedantical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pedantic |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, academic, arid, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, formalistic, fussy, hairsplitting, inkhorn, learned, literary, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |