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pedantic
Synonyms and Antonyms of pedantic
- The writing was overly complex and pedantic, which made it nearly impossible to understand for anyone but a specialist.
- The speech was thoroughly researched and well structured, but too pedantic to appeal to a general audience.
didactic, high-toned, hyperintellectual
high-hat, snobbish, snobby, snooty
affected, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-minded, la-di-da (also la-de-da), ostentatious, pompous
erudite, learned, literate, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly, scholastic, well-read
academic (also academical), bookish, professorial
brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smart
blue, cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired (or longhair), nerdish, nerdy
- I found the author's writing informative but dreadfully pedantic.
arid, barren, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, prosaic, stodgy, stuffy, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, undramatic, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, weary, wearying
bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous
canned, cardboard, conventional, cookie-cutter, derivative, imitative, ready-made, tried-and-true, unimaginative, uninspired, unoriginal
normal, ordinary, rote, routine, standard, stock, typical, usual
banal, cliché (also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
amusing, diverting, entertaining
alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating
arresting, provocative, tantalizing
absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting
animating, energizing, enlivening, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, stimulating
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