Monotonous vs Pedantic - What's the difference?
monotonous | pedantic |
having an unvarying tone or pitch
tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
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 monotonous and pedantic
is that monotonous is having an unvarying tone or pitch while pedantic is like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.monotonous
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* monotonic * samelypedantic
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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".