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Definition: PEDANTICAL |
PEDANTICALAdjective1. Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. |
| Language | Translations for "PEDANTICAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | pedantesco (donnish, pedantic), pedante (bookish, pedant, pedantic, popinjay, prig, priggish, scholastic). (various references) | |
Ukranian | педантичний (donnish, dryasdust, meticulous, notional, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, precise, priggish, prim, punctilious, square-toed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PEDANTICAL": pedantically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: analeptic, cadential, captained. | |
-2 letters: analcite, dentalia, laitance, lapidate, palatine, panicled, pantiled, pedantic, placated, placenta, plicated. | |
-3 letters: actinal, alcaide, antacid, canaled, candela, capelan, capelin, capital, captain, citadel, decanal, deltaic, depaint, dialect, edictal, inlaced, lactean, lanated, painted, palaced, paladin, pandect, panicle, pantile, patinae, patined, pelican, picante, pintada, placate, plained, plaited, planate, planted, platane, platina, plicate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-p-t" | |
+2 letters: pedantically. | |
+3 letters: uncapitalized. | |
+4 letters: platinocyanide. | |
+5 letters: platinocyanides, unanticipatedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 44 41 4E 54 49 43 41 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -.. .- -. - .. -.-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01000100 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E D A N T I C A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 0044 0041 004E 0054 0049 0043 0041 004C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50393835485443373546 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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