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German
Etymology
Pedant + -isch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈdantɪʃ/
- Hyphenation: pe‧dan‧tisch
Adjective
pedantisch (strong nominative masculine singular pedantischer, comparative pedantischer, superlative am pedantischsten or (archaic) am pedantischesten)
- pedantic
- Synonym: schulmeisterlich
- 1903, Kristoffer Nyrop, Das Leben der Wörter, p.138 (at books google)
Selbst der pedantischeste Grammatiker wird unbedenklich den Ausdruck praepositio postposita gebrauchen, ebenso wie die Botaniker nicht das geringste Bedenken gegen Pflanzennamen wie gleditschia triaconthus inermis (dornenfreie dreidornige Akazie) tragen- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- punctilious; meticulous
- Synonyms: peinlich genau, übergenau, überpeinlich, pingelig, penibel, engstirnig, kleinkariert, kleinlich
Declension
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