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Excessively concerned with minor details or rules

Academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way

Nitpicky or cerebral to the point of being pompous

Inclined to express negative or disapproving comments

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Bombastic or grandiloquent in expression

Excessively specific

Boring or severely lacking in interest

Referring to something in a strict sense

Pretentious and designed to impress

Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters

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Adjective

Excessively concerned with minor details or rules

over-particular

difficult to please

impossible to please

unfavourable^UK

extremely careful

dotting the i's

crossing the t's

pass-remarkable

easily disgusted

particularized^US

particularised^UK

selfdisciplined

systematized^US

going to great lengths

systematised^UK

well thought out

minding p's and q's

encyclopedic^US

encyclopaedic^UK

leaving no stone unturned

all-encompassing

well thought-out

lock stock and barrel

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“If you're being pedantic, I suppose this makes it more of an open sandwich, but in my book, the mozzarella and pepperoni qualify it as pizza.”

Adjective

Academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way

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“Smith presents a long-winded, pedantic lecture on the evils of lying.”

Adjective

Nitpicky or cerebral to the point of being pompous

“There are moments in Bach when I would accuse him of nimiety, a pedantic thoroughness, more artifice than art.”

Adjective

Inclined to express negative or disapproving comments

unfavourable^UK

pass-remarkable

difficult to please

impossible to please

on someone's back

uncomplimentary

full of reproof

over-censorious

severely critical

straightforward

straight from the shoulder

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Adjective

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

schoolmasterist

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Adjective

Bombastic or grandiloquent in expression

hyperventilated

over-embellished

excessively ornate

overembellished

full of hot air

excessively ornamental

highly decorated

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Adjective

Like a prig

holier-than-thou

schoolmistressy

prim and proper

stick-in-the-mud

of the old school

dyed-in-the-wool

goody-two-shoes

politically correct

goody two-shoes

too good to be true

pleased with oneself

full of yourself

proud of oneself

self-congratulatory

self-opinionated

stuck on oneself

ultra-conservative

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Excessively specific

Adjective

Boring or severely lacking in interest

dull as ditchwater

run-of-the-mill

dull as dishwater

lacking variety

soul-destroying

non-stimulating

middle-of-the-road

nothing to write home about

no great shakes

lacking excitement

lacking interest

lacking variation

common or garden

run of the mill

unobjectionable

undistinguished

without variety

flat as pancake

puts one to sleep

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Adjective

Referring to something in a strict sense

Adjective

Pretentious and designed to impress

high and mighty

high-and-mighty

self-opinionated

self-centred^UK

self-centered^US

full of oneself

individualistic

putting on airs

too big for your boots

self-glorifying

self-congratulatory

full of yourself

pleased with yourself

wrapped up in oneself

stuck on oneself

offensively self-assertive

on a high horse

swollen with pride

think too highly of oneself

think one is the cat's pyjamas

pleased with oneself

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

in love with oneself

think a lot of oneself

self-interested

full of airs and graces

self-preoccupied

self-infatuated

throwing one's weight about

looking after number one

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Adjective

Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters

unsubstantiated

in the abstract

knowledge-based

based on guesswork

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