pedantic Syllabification: (pe·dan·tic)Pronunciation: /pəˈdantik/Translate pedantic | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of pedantic adjective of or like a pedant:many of the essays are long, dense, and too pedantic to hold great appealDerivatives pedanticallyPronunciation: /-tik(ə)lē/ adverb pedantic in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of pedantic in the British & World English dictionary