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Educational vs Pedantic - What's the difference?

educational | pedantic |

As adjectives the difference between educational and pedantic

is that educational is of, or relating to education while pedantic is like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

As a noun educational

is a free (or low cost) trip for travel consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service a fam trip.

educational

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to education.
    • A school is an educational establishment.
  • Instructive, or helping to educate.
    • They were shown an educational film about VD.

    Derived terms

    * educationalist * ejamacational

    Synonyms

    * (helping to educate) educative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A free (or low cost) trip for travel consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service. A fam trip

    • pedantic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pedantick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  • Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
  • Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.
    • "On the contrary, the fall was perfectly safe; it was the impact with the ground that killed him".

    Related terms

    * pedant * pedantry

    Synonyms

    * (like a pedant) anal-retentive, fussy, nit-picky * (knowledge-peacock) (sometimes applicable) nit-picky, ostentatious, pedagogical, pretentious * (linguistically affected) fussy, nit-picky * See also

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