Adjective:

ज़रूरत से ज़्यादा परिशुद्ध, रूढ़िवादी, पांडित्याभिमानी, पंडिताऊ,

pedantic's Usage Examples:

Dr White's ideals in part were: a closer union between the advanced and the general educational system of the state; liberal instruction of the industrial classes; increased stress on technical instruction; unsectarian control; " a course in history and political and social science adapted to the practical needs of men worthily ambitious in public affairs "; a more thorough study of modern languages and literatures, especially English; the " steady effort to abolish monastic government and pedantic instruction "; the elective system of studies; and the stimulus of non-resident lecturers.

Japanese journalistic writing in these early years of Meiji was marred by extreme and pedantic classicism.

He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself.

More serious, however, than this excessive love of synchronism is his almost pedantic anxiety to edify.

Being a pedantic old academic I 'm a stickler for accuracy.

From his mother, Elizabeth Vitlitsaya, he inherited most of his characteristics, an insatiable love of work, an almost pedantic love of order and the most rigorous sense of duty.

This narrow and pedantic theory had at least the merit of insisting on propriety of expression.

Instinctively a humanist, he had little patience with the narrow curriculum of Harvard in his day and the rather pedantic spirit with which classical studies were there pursued.

He was disgusted at the pedantic teaching of his own day, and he insisted that the teaching of words and things must go together.

It seemed as though the Renaissance ran a risk of being throttled in its cradle by superfluity of foreign and pedantic nutriment.

Synonyms:

scholarly, academic, donnish,

Antonyms:

nonintellectual, superficial, applied, unscholarly,