Pedant

What do we mean by pedant?

One who ostentatiously exhibits academic knowledge or who pays undue attention to minor details or formal rules. noun

A schoolmaster. noun

A schoolmaster; a teacher; a pedagogue. noun

A person who overrates erudition, or lays an undue stress on exact knowledge of detail or of trifles, as compared with larger matters or with general principles; also, one who makes an undue or inappropriate display of learning. noun

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. noun

One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. noun

A teacher or schoolmaster. noun

A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. noun

A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary. noun

A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit noun

A teacher or schoolmaster.

A person who emphasizes their knowledge through strict adherence to rules of vocabulary and grammar.

A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

Words that are spelled similarly to pedant:
pedant, pendant, pesant.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word pedant:
words, king.

Words that rhyme with pedant:
credent, fred hunt, red hunt.

Adjectives that are often used to describe pedant:
old, mere, lady, learned, military, female, poor, conceited, royal, dull, little, young, pompous, minded, ignorant, bound, dry, german, vain, rabid, arrogant, scholastic, coarse, hearted, ungainly, foolish, insufferable, dressed, absolute, formal, greater, typical, ridiculous, narrow, academic, classical, domineering, true, solemn, blatant, legal, tiresome, puny, stupid, moral, sour, silly, stiff, vulgar, literary, unfortunate, starred, insolent, cloistered, contemptible, constitutional, greatest, crazy, tasteless, rude, musical, elderly, wretched, fussy, latter, singular, aged, grotesque, stunted, alive, commonplace, hidebound, comic, dreary, paltry, conscientious, eccentric, natured, weak, supercilious, born, arid, moralistic, ferocious, honest, footed, miserable, proud, dogmatical, erudite, thin, hopeless, useless, dust, stuffy.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective pedant:
pride, joue, persons, friend, nothing, slave, state, writer, bigotry, prejudice, dissertation, king, administrator, scholar, fate, doctor, dissertations.

Words that sound like pedant:
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