Pedantic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 380 anagrams from letters in pedantic (acdeinpt).
First recorded in 1590-1600; pedant + -ic
Anything that savors of the pedantic is to be strictly avoided.
Suffice to say that Bach is pedantic when compared to Mozart, and Beethoven unbeautiful.
In his pedantic way he began to tell her the story of Jeanne, so far as he knew it.
"The facts are as follows," replied Tibby, who had at times a pedantic lucidity.
Her perfection can sometimes verge on pedantic, like with her conversion to veganism.
The problem was that Sorkin did too much (pedantic, predictable) telling and not enough showing.
The drinks here, like the Blackwatch (with Johnny Walker Black, creme de cassis, and Becherovka), are far from pedantic.
The pedantic type might note that Hippolytus makes no prophetic mention of the cinema or the Internet.
"He related to us his whole life," rejoined she, in a pedantic tone.
The pedantic scholars among us might wonder if the book does its job.
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