Pedant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
  • n. One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.
  • n. Obsolete A schoolmaster.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A teacher or schoolmaster.
  • n. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  • n. A person who emphasizes his/her knowledge through the use of vocabulary.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
  • n. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A schoolmaster; a teacher; a pedagogue.
  • n. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    scholarly person    student    bookman    scholar   
    Hyponym
    purist   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    schoolmaster    pedagogue    precisian    bluestocking    morosoph    pedantess   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prig    weakling    sentimentalists    blockhead   
     
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