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pedanticizing

pedanticizing is the present participle and gerund 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.

Questions about pedanticizing

What is pedanticizing the present participle and gerund of?
Pedanticizing is the present participle and gerund of pedanticize.

Words near pedanticizing in the dictionary

  1. pedanticism
  2. pedanticisms
  3. pedanticize
  4. pedanticized
  5. pedanticizes
  6. pedanticizing
  7. pedantick
  8. pedanticly
  9. pedanticness
  10. pedantics
  11. pedanties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedanticizing (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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