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Quibbling vs Pedantic - What's the difference?

quibbling | pedantic |

As a verb quibbling

is .

As a noun quibbling

is petty argument.

As an adjective pedantic is

like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

quibbling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • petty argument
  • * H. G. Wells
    • Suddenly he perceived that he was sure of God. Not perhaps of the God of Nicaea, but what did these poor little quibblings and definitions of the theologians matter?

    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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