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pedantic | m |

As an adjective pedantic

is like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

As a letter m is

the thirteenth letter of the.

As a symbol m is

mega- or m can be the roman numeral m (1,000).

pedantic

English

Alternative forms

* pedantick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  • Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
  • Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
    • "On the contrary, the fall was perfectly safe; it was the impact with the ground that killed him".

    Related terms

    * pedant * pedantry

    Synonyms

    * (like a pedant) anal-retentive, fussy, nit-picky * (knowledge-peacock) (sometimes applicable) nit-picky, ostentatious, pedagogical, pretentious * (linguistically affected) fussy, nit-picky * See also

    External links

    * *

    Anagrams

    *

    m

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Modification of capital letter M, from (etyl) letter .

    Letter

  • The thirteenth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * (other scripts) * Turned:

    Etymology 2

    Various abbreviations.

    Symbol

    (Bilabial nasal) (head)
  • meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units
  • milli-
  • .
  • mass
  • month or months

    • Etymology 3

    From upper case roman numeral M (1000), an alteration of ?, from ?, an alteration of ?, an alteration of ?, from encircling X (the roman numeral for ten) to indicate the hundredth ten.

    Alternative forms

    * M,

    Numeral

  • cardinal number one thousand (1000)
    • Synonyms
    *

    See also

    {{Letter , page=M , NATO=Mike , Morse=–– , Character=M , Braille=? }} Image:Latin M.png, Capital and lowercase versions of M , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter M.png, Uppercase and lowercase M in Fraktur ----