overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education
show-offish about one's knowledge
/marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
SYN - academic, donnish
"Watching this person slave over such a ridiculous part of the problem, he vowed to himself that he would never allow himself to become this pedantic."
"She was completely put off by his pedantic behavior and his refusal to see it as such."
"The professor suffered for the pedantic aura he gave off in public."
"Although most thought of him as pedantic, they were just trying to justify for themselves their own pathetic lifestyle."
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