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pedantic | wastrel |

As an adjective pedantic

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

As a noun wastrel is

(dated) one who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.

pedantic

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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

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    wastrel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
  • *1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 22
    • Mary's mother - if that was her picture - may have been a wastrel in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and dissipated life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face.

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