adjective🔗ShareLike a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning."My brother's presentation was excellent, but his incredibly pedantic explanations of every technical detail bored everyone. "characterattitudelanguageeducationphilosophymindChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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