"Pedantic" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 酸 |  suān | sour / tart / sick at heart / grieved / sore / aching / pedantic / impractical / to make sarcastic remarks about sb / an acid |   |
| 烦琐 | fán suǒ | tedious / convoluted / fiddly / pedantic | |
| 迂腐 | yū fǔ | pedantic / trite / inflexible / adherence to old ideas | |
| 迂 | yū | literal-minded / pedantic / doctrinaire / longwinded / circuitous | |
| 穷酸 | qióng suān | (of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant | |
| 食古不化 | shí gǔ bù huà | to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom) / to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject | |
| 迂儒 | yū rú | unrealistic / pedantic and impractical | |
| 迂执 | yū zhí | pedantic and stubborn | |
| 迂见 | yū jiàn | absurd opinion / pedantic and unrealistic view | |
