педанти́чный — meaning in English
pedantichnyy
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English meaning
- meticulous adjective Extremely careful and precise about details.
- pedantic adj Overly focused on formal rules, minor details, or technical correctness, often to an annoying degree.
- punctilious adj Very careful about small details, especially rules or correct behaviour.
Senses
педанти́чный is used for these senses in English:
- inkhorn (used attributively, pejorative, of vocabulary) Something or someone pedantic, obscurely scholarly.
- meticulous Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.
- pedantic Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
- punctilious Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
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