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pedantic

/pəˈdæntɪk/puh-DAN-tik
/pəˈdæntɪk/puh-DAN-tik

Meaninglike a pedant

Common meaning: fussy about small rules

Journey through time

  1. Italianpedantesource
  2. Frenchpedantsource
  3. Englishpedant‘someone who fusses over small points of learning’
  4. Englishformed in English from pedantpedantic‘fussy about small rules’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from pedant + -ic.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), PEDANT, p.429 · scan

Source words

  • pedante Italian · source word “a teacher”

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