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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 Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.

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

  1. adj Relating to or involving the anus.
  2. adj Excessively focused on neatness, order, or small details; fussy and controlling (informal, short for "anal-retentive").

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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