WORD PLAY OF THE DAY 1: Pedantic

Word Play of the Day: PEDANTIC

Pronounced phonetically as:  pɪˈdantɪk

Adjective: pedantic

Meaning:  One who is excessively concerned with minor details or rules; over scrupulous.

Example in a Sentence: "His analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic"

Synonyms: over scrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, over-exacting, perfectionist, precisionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finicky; dogmatic, purist, literalist, literalistic, formalist, scholastic;  sophistic, sophistical; captious, hair-splitting, quibbling, fault-finding, hypercritical, informal nitpicking.