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What is the adjective for pedantically?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs pedantise and pedantize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pedantic
  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.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. overscrupulous, precise, exact, meticulous, perfectionist, precisionist, punctilious, scrupulous, dogmatic, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, literalist, literalistic, particular, picky, scholastic, captious, casuistical, fault-finding, formalist, hypercritical, nitpicking, pernickety, pettifogging, quibbling, casuistic, caviling, cavilling, hairsplitting, overnice, purist, sophistic, sophistical, carping, nit-picky, over-exacting, nit-picking, hair-splitting, exacting, persnickety, careful, nice, painstaking, demanding, thorough, choosy, discriminating, rigorous … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “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.”
      “Smith presents a long-winded, pedantic lecture on the evils of lying.”
      “There are moments in Bach when I would accuse him of nimiety, a pedantic thoroughness, more artifice than art.”
pedantocratic
  1. Promoting or relating to pedantocracy.
pedantick
  1. Obsolete form of pedantic.
pedantical
  1. Pedantic.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pedantic, academic, learned, erudite, bookish, literary, donnish, scholastic, pedagogic, didactic, formal, dull, formalistic, fussy, hairsplitting, pompous, priggish, stilted, inkhorn, particular, schoolish, sententious, punctilious, abstruse, arid, egotistic, overnice, doctrinaire, dry, ostentatious, nit-picking, scholarly, intellectual, studious, cerebral, lettered, highbrow, educated, brainy, serious, thoughtful, clerkly, earnest, egghead, swotty, ivory-towerish, book-loving, precise … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I do not think that success will come by a pedantical insistence upon correctness in form without regard to the sense.”
      “It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations.”
      “There remain two appendices touching the tradition of knowledge, the one critical, the other pedantical.”
pedant
  1. pedantic
pedantised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pedantise
pedantising
  1. present participle of pedantise
pedantized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pedantize
pedantizing
  1. present participle of pedantize
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