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pedanticize

pedanticize verb: to be a pedant.

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.

Synonyms of pedanticize

Forms of pedanticize

third-person singular presentpedanticizes
present participlepedanticizing
past participlepedanticized
pastpedanticized

Origin of pedanticize

From pedantic + -ize.

Questions about pedanticize

What does pedanticize mean?
Pedanticize means to be a pedant.
What part of speech is pedanticize?
Pedanticize is a verb.
What is the past tense of pedanticize?
The past tense of pedanticize is pedanticized.

Words near pedanticize in the dictionary

  1. pedantically
  2. pedanticalness
  3. pedanticise
  4. pedanticism
  5. pedanticisms
  6. pedanticize
  7. pedanticized
  8. pedanticizes
  9. pedanticizing
  10. pedantick
  11. pedanticly

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