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.
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