PURIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

bookworm; pedant; scholastic (a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit)

Derivation:

purism (scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language))

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