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Pedantic vs Snobby - What's the difference?

pedantic | snobby |

As adjectives the difference between pedantic and snobby

is that pedantic is like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning while snobby is characteristic of a snob.

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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    snobby

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characteristic of a snob.
    • His tastes are snobby .

    Synonyms

    * snobbish

    Related terms

    * snob