Requisite vs Pedantic - What's the difference?
requisite | pedantic |
An indispensable item; a requirement.
* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=, title=Utilitarianism
, passage=But this something, what is it, unless the happiness of others, or some of the requisites of happiness?}}
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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 requisite and pedantic
is that requisite is essential, required, indispensable while pedantic is like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.As a noun requisite
is an indispensable item; a requirement.requisite
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Synonyms
* necessary * See alsoNoun
(en noun)citation
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".