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pedantský — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fastidious adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
  • pedantic adj Overly focused on formal rules, minor details, or technical correctness, often to an annoying degree.
  • pernickety adj Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.

Senses

pedantský is used for these senses in English:

  • fastidious Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
  • pedantic Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
  • pernickety (chiefly, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.

fastidious — full definition

  1. adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
  2. adj (biology) Needing very specific conditions or nutrients to grow, and therefore difficult to culture.

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