Library / English Dictionary

PEDANT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bookworm; pedant; scholastic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pedant" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedant"):

purist (someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words))

Derivation:

pedantic (marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects)

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