precisian

Noun

Meaning

One who limits, or restrains.

An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inquisitor puritan bourgeois burgher pedant prig absolute accuracy precise arbitrary correctness austere coercive arrogant traditionalist

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Antonyms

maverick misfit eccentric militant dissident dissenting

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Anagrams

periscian

Examples

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books. Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

Close letter words and terms

precisely precisely unless preciseness precisianism precisianist precisianistic