adj. Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.

Is pedantic an adverb?

—pedantically /-kli/ adverbExamples from the Corpuspedantic• Her book is informative and scholarly, but never pedantic. ...

What does pedantically mean?

1 : of, relating to, or being a pedant a pedantic teacher. 2 : narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned a pedantic insistence that we follow the rules exactly Far worse, he was pedantic, pernickety, letting nothing inaccurate or of uncertain meaning go by—not an aphrodisiac quality.— Kingsley Amis.