pedantyczny — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anal adj Relating to or involving the anus.
- 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.
- prim adj Stiffly formal, neat, and overly proper in manner or appearance.
- punctilious adj Very careful about small details, especially rules or correct behaviour.
Senses
pedantyczny is used for these senses in English:
- anal (psychology, also vulgar informal) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- fastidious Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
- pedantic Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
- prim (by extension) Of a person: Prudish; straight-laced.
anal — full definition
- adj Relating to or involving the anus.
- adj Excessively focused on neatness, order, or small details; fussy and controlling (informal, short for "anal-retentive").
fastidious — full definition
- adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
- adj (biology) Needing very specific conditions or nutrients to grow, and therefore difficult to culture.
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