Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

non-pedantic

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English

Syllables: non-pedan-tic
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"The man whom the country is bent on honouring most at present, because he is so clever and successful, and is so curiously young for his time of life, is precisely the ideal of a non-pedantic University man realized in the highest sphere of the practical world."
"The very site of our Abbey was identical, or nearly so, with the heathen temple of Sul, and the city then dedicated to that goddess, and called Aquæ Sulis (not Solis, if Mr. Barham and non-pedantic antiquaries may be relied on)."
"The developing organisms seem to be very non-pedantic in their attitude to the formal categories."

Etymology

From non- + pedantic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Inflected Forms

nonpedantic (alternative)

Synonyms

unpedantic

Questions

What does non-pedantic mean?: Not pedantic.
Where does non-pedantic come from?: From non- + pedantic.

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