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Excessively concerned with minor details or rules

Academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way

Nitpicky or cerebral to the point of being pompous

Inclined to find fault too readily

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Boring or severely lacking in interest

Bombastic or grandiloquent in expression

Referring to something in a strict sense

Having or showing very strict moral attitudes

Excessively specific

Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters

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Adjective

Excessively concerned with minor details or rules

over-particular

difficult to please

impossible to please

extremely careful

dotting the i's

crossing the t's

pass-remarkable

easily disgusted

particularized^US

particularised^UK

selfdisciplined

systematized^US

going to great lengths

systematised^UK

well thought out

minding p's and q's

encyclopedic^US

encyclopaedic^UK

leaving no stone unturned

all-encompassing

well thought-out

lock stock and barrel

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“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.”

Adjective

Academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way

with great knowledge

full of insight

showing great knowledge

intellectualist

intellectualistic

hyperintelligent

well thought out

intellectually aware

very intelligent

quick on the uptake

having been around

able to read and write

abreast of the facts

knowing what's what

artistically aware

with good taste

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“Smith presents a long-winded, pedantic lecture on the evils of lying.”

Adjective

Nitpicky or cerebral to the point of being pompous

“There are moments in Bach when I would accuse him of nimiety, a pedantic thoroughness, more artifice than art.”

Adjective

Inclined to find fault too readily

pass-remarkable

difficult to please

impossible to please

unfavourable^UK

on someone's back

uncomplimentary

full of reproof

over-censorious

severely critical

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Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

schoolmasterist

by way of explanation

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Adjective

Boring or severely lacking in interest

dull as ditchwater

run-of-the-mill

dull as dishwater

lacking variety

soul-destroying

non-stimulating

middle-of-the-road

nothing to write home about

no great shakes

lacking excitement

lacking interest

common or garden

lacking variation

run of the mill

unobjectionable

undistinguished

without variety

flat as pancake

puts one to sleep

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Bombastic or grandiloquent in expression

hyperventilated

over-embellished

excessively ornate

full of hot air

excessively ornamental

highly decorated

overembellished

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Referring to something in a strict sense

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Adjective

Having or showing very strict moral attitudes

schoolmistressy

holier-than-thou

prim and proper

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

goody-two-shoes

politically correct

goody two-shoes

overconscientious

undemonstrative

uncommunicative

keeping people at arm's length

self-respecting

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Adjective

Excessively specific

Adjective

Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters

unsubstantiated

in the abstract

knowledge-based

based on guesswork

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