| 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 |
| Main Entry: | didactical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instructive |
Synonyms: |
didactic, donnish, homiletic, homiletical, lecturelike, moralizing, pedantic, pedantical, preachy |
| 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 |