食古不化 shígǔbùhuà to be a half-baked pedant Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 食古不化 shígǔbùhuà to be a half-baked pedant To swallow ancient learning without digesting it; to be pedantic by sticking to old ways without knowing how to apply them to the present. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.071 per million Cross-References Synonym 刻舟求剑 kèzhōuqiújiàn胶柱鼓瑟 jiāozhùgǔsèAntonym 推陈出新 tuīchénchūxīn日新又新 rìxīnyòuxīn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
食古不化 shígǔbùhuà to be a half-baked pedant To swallow ancient learning without digesting it; to be pedantic by sticking to old ways without knowing how to apply them to the present. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.071 per million Cross-References Synonym 刻舟求剑 kèzhōuqiújiàn胶柱鼓瑟 jiāozhùgǔsèAntonym 推陈出新 tuīchénchūxīn日新又新 rìxīnyòuxīn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
