Loquacious vs Pedantic - What's the difference?
loquacious | pedantic |
Talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation.
* 1841 , , ch. 8:
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.
As adjectives the difference between loquacious and pedantic
is that loquacious is talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation while pedantic is like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.loquacious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious , or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.
Synonyms
* chatty, talkative, garrulous * See alsoAntonyms
* laconic, quiet, reserved, taciturnDerived terms
* loquaciously * loquaciousnesspedantic
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Alternative forms
* pedantick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- "On the contrary, the fall was perfectly safe; it was the impact with the ground that killed him".