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Persnickety vs. Pedantic — What's the Difference?

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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