About The Word Pedant
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Pedant
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What's The Definition Of Pedant?
[n] a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pedant: bookworm | scholastic Related Terms | Find terms related to Pedant: anal character | Babbitt | bluestocking | bourgeois | burgher | compulsive character | conformer | conformist | conventionalist | euphuist | fine writer | formalist | Gongorist | Marinist | methodologist | Middle American | middle-class type | model child | organization man | parrot | perfectionist | Philistine | phrasemaker | phraseman | phrasemonger | plastic person | precieuse | precieux | precisian | precisianist | precisionist | purist | rhetorician | sheep | square | teenybopper | trimmer | wordspinner | yes-man See Also | intellect | intellectual | purist Pedant In Webster's Dictionary \Ped"ant\, n. [F. p['e]dant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. ? to
instruct, from pai^s boy. See {Pedagogue}.]
1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] --Dryden.
A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. --Shak.
2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain
display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
--Addison.
A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he.
--Goldsmith.
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