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pedanticise

pedanticise is the alternative spelling of pedanticize.

Meaning of pedanticize

Verb

pedanticize (third-person singular simple present pedanticizes, present participle pedanticizing, simple past and past participle pedanticized)

  1. (intransitive) To be a pedant.
    Synonyms:
    pedant, pedantize
  2. (transitive) To make pedantic.

Forms of pedanticise

third-person singular presentpedanticises
present participlepedanticising
past participlepedanticised
pastpedanticised

Questions about pedanticise

What is pedanticise the alternative spelling of?
Pedanticise is the alternative spelling of pedanticize.

Words near pedanticise in the dictionary

  1. pedantesses
  2. pedantic
  3. pedantical
  4. pedantically
  5. pedanticalness
  6. pedanticise
  7. pedanticism
  8. pedanticisms
  9. pedanticize
  10. pedanticized
  11. pedanticizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedanticise (page history and authors); pedanticize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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