Pedantic vs Straightlaced - What's the difference?
pedantic | straightlaced |
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 pedantic and straightlaced
is that pedantic is like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning while straightlaced is .pedantic
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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".
