pedantic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.

   “Bad news for a certain kind of pedantic patriot (look away now, Jacob Rees-Mogg). Prince Charles has debased the English language – and in a letter to a foreign potentate, no less.”

2. sıfat Tending to show off one’s knowledge, often in a tiresome manner.

   “The style is pedantic and reviewish: but I can easily fancy states of mind to which it may be no less salutary on that account.”