You may use the word “paying attention to detail” for improving your overall look.
Is there a word that describes “Paying attention to the smallest details, though they might not matter.”
What started with the letter
“P”?
Persnickety : giving a lot of attention to details that are minor or not important.
I think “p” words are punctilious.
Punctilious ( comparative more punctilious “, superlative most punctilious “)
Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
No slap, no glove, no more clashing now, Duels were in there.
- Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
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“Pedantic” often applies to someone who takes “correctness” to an extreme level, including paying attention to details that don’t matter in the grand scheme.
What should I now do with this link: http://www.merriamwebster.com
The
point of x “pedant_p’den” is to search dictionary.com/dictionary/pedant_past-to-p.html.
Consider pettifogging, present participle of pettifog, which per wiktionary is to quibble and nitpick over trivial details. A pettifogger is “Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections.”
As a person who
is rigidly precise or punctilious in the observance of rules or forms; a purist, a stickler, a pedant.
OED sense 3. Precise, OED sense 3. Is
strict in observance of rule, usage, etc. a: Strict in the observance of law, rules, usage, etc. or not? ; formal, correct; scrupulous, particular; (occas.) overly formal, fastidious. What the action signifies for strictly doing a practice or rule.
How should I proceed with the article, if I’m still writing?
You may be looking for painstaking. By itself it doesn’t mean “attention to detail”, but it is often combined with it to intensify: painstaking attention to detail.
Punctilious would be my answer if it had to start with p, and was was the one that came to mind first. I think that meticulous is a word that better matches the question.
Meticulous is a positive word. Pernickety represents being difficult to please more than it does attention to detail. Is also a negative word. *
I came across the word “picayune” which as an adjective means (actually) worthless or useless and that came up in my head right away. Now in context the following answer would answer the OP’s
question: I don’t like to ask Sam to review my designs because he point out picayune grammatical mistakes while missing important conceptual errors.” “Well,
what a nice ring to get. ” ” I should get off some road, but that’s where I am looking ” “
On first sight (and not just after), pedantic is first word like.
According to Oxford Dictionary, Pedantic is someone who is:
Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.
Some synonyms beginning with P : perfectionist, punctilious, precisionist.
What is particularly used to describe someone who is fastidious?
- : of, relating to, or being a single person or thing
- obsolete : partial
- : of, relating to, or concerned with details
- a : distinctive among other examples or cases of the same general category : particularly unusual
b : of being one unit as a subclass- or unit a : affirming or denying a predicate to
a part of the subject —used of a proposition in logic a : concerned over or attentive to details : diligent c : affirmative>
Which of these do I prefer to follow to all
of the others already listed?
