'Stickler' definitions:
Definition of 'stickler'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"
Definition of 'Stickler'
From: GCIDE
- Stickler \Stic"kler\ (st[i^]k"kl[~e]r), n. [See Stickle, v. t.] One who stickles. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (b) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony. [1913 Webster]
- The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stickler'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute monarch,
- absolute ruler,
- all-powerful ruler,
- arrogator,
- ass,
- autarch,
- autocrat,
- bigot,
- bitter-ender,
- bullethead,
- caesar,
- captious critic,
- commissar,
- czar,
- despot,
- dictator,
- diehard,
- disciplinarian,
- dogmatist,
- donkey,
- driver,
- duce,
- fanatic,
- hard master,
- hardnose,
- intransigeant,
- intransigent,
- last-ditcher,
- martinet,
- maverick,
- mule,
- nitpicker,
- oligarch,
- oppressor,
- perfectionist,
- perverse fool,
- pharaoh,
- pighead,
- positivist,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- purist,
- Simon Legree,
- slave driver,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- tyrant,
- usurper,
- warlord