Persnickety vs. Pedantic — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Persnickety and Pedantic
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Persnickety
Placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy
She's very persnickety about her food
Pedantic
Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous
His analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic
Persnickety
Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.
Pedantic
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules
A pedantic attention to details.
Persnickety
Snobbish; pretentious.
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Pedantic
Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
Persnickety
Requiring strict attention to detail; demanding
A persnickety job.
Pedantic
Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
Persnickety
Standard form of pernickety
Pedantic
Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.
Persnickety
Finicky or fussy; demanding attention to petty details; - of people.
Pedantic
Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
Persnickety
Snobbish; behaving aloofly.
Persnickety
Used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant;
A snotty little scion of a degenerate family
They're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety
Persnickety
Characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details;
A persnickety job
A persnickety school teacher
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