nonpedantic

See also: non-pedantic

English

Adjective

nonpedantic (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of non-pedantic
   • 1872 April 6, Y. S. M., Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc., fourth series, volume ninth, number 223, London: […] the Office, […], page 277:

     “Celtic” v. “Keltic.”—One or two of your learned correspondents write this name “Keltic.” In the name of all the nonpedantic members of society, that is, of about nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand, I strongly protest against the change.

   • 1903 January 10, F. T. S., “Regional Minor Surgery, Describing the Treatment of Those Conditions Daily Encountered by the General Practitioner. By George Gray Van Schaick, M. D., Attending Surgeon to the French Hospital, New York. The International Journal of Surgery Co., New York. Price $1.50.”, in The Philadelphia Medical Journal: A Weekly Journal Owned and Published by the Philadelphia Medical Publishing Company and Conducted Exclusively in the Interests of the Medical Profession, volume XI, number 2, New York, Philadelphia: A. R. Elliott Publishing Co., page 49:

     The author writes in a simple nonpedantic manner, avoids subjects of technical character, and gives the results of his own personal observations rather than the views of the more systematic writers.

   • 1933 April 1, “New Musical Magazine Strikes Original Note”, in The Chattanooga News, volume XLV, number 235, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 11:

     “By combining these colorful elements with authority—always deftly concealed and vividly nonpedantic—Encore hopes to serve a vast new field.”