pedantry
nounHow many syllables in pedantry?
There are 3 syllables in the word pedantry.How to pronounce pedantry:
Definition of pedantry:
- pedantry (noun):
- an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning.
- pedantic presentation or application of knowledge or learning
- the practice of being a pedant, esp. in the minute observance of petty rules or details
Synonyms for pedantry:
bookishness
culture
edification
education
enlightenment
erudition
finicality
finickiness
flash
hairsplitting
learning
literacy
ostentation
overnicety
pettifoggery
pomposity
punctiliousness
quibbling
reading
scholarship
sophistry
Antonyms for pedantry:
creativity
imprecision
inaccuracy
inexactness
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- normalcy
- lyricist
- like-minded
- convener
- casita
- bronchial
- Bonnibelle
- challenging
- unfounded
- semibald
- revision
- policy
- negligent
- merengue
- macadam
- inspection
- forcibly
- decisive
- annotate
- agilely
- tolerate
- submission
- novelist
- cowardice
- asinine
- ascending
- admiring
- virulence
- righteousness
- resistant
- projection
- precaution
- Paraguay
- credited
- alchemy
- adjutant
- requiem
- quick-witted
- Javier
- instinctive
- impudent
- good-humored
- frivolous
- embankment
- dissident
- Desiree
- annoyance
- raucously
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- provision
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