Stickler vs Pedantic - What's the difference?
stickler | pedantic |
*, II.27:
*:In ancient time they were wont to employ third persons as sticklers , to see no treachery or disorder were used, and to beare witnes of the combates successe.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Dryden
Someone who insistently advocates (for) something.
:Lexicographers are stickler s for correct language.
* Jonathan Swift
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 a noun stickler
is .As an adjective pedantic is
like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.stickler
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Noun
(en noun)- Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
- Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, / First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
- The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.
Anagrams
*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".