Usually means: Excessively concerned with minor details.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word pedantic:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedantic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pedantic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pedantic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pedantic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pedantic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pedantic, pedantic: Wordnik
  7. pedantic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pedantic: Wiktionary
  9. pedantic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pedantic, pedantic: Dictionary.com
  11. pedantic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Pedantic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Pedantic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. pedantic: Rhymezone
  15. pedantic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pedantic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. pedantic: Free Dictionary
  18. pedantic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. pedantic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  20. pedantic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. pedantic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedantic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedantic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedantic: A Word A Day
  2. pedantic: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedantic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pedantically as well.)

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adjective:  Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
adjective:  Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.

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