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Pedantic vs Hidebound - What's the difference?

pedantic | hidebound |

As adjectives the difference between pedantic and hidebound

is that pedantic is like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning while hidebound is bound with the hide of an animal.

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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    hidebound

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hide-bound (less common)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bound with the hide of an animal.
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  • (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
  • (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
    • (Milton)
    (Carlyle)
  • (obsolete) Niggardly; penurious; stingy.
    • (Quarles)
    (Webster 1913)

    See also

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