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Definitions for Pedant
[1] a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
[2] a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
[3] a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
[4] Obsolete . a schoolmaster.
[5] a person who relies too much on academic learning or who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail
[6] archaic a schoolmaster or teacher
Words related to Pedant
egghead, bookworm, pedagogue, doctrinaire, bluestocking, dogmatist, methodologist
Words nearby Pedant
pedal point, pedal pushers, pedal steel guitar, pedalfer, pedalo, pedant, pedantic, pedanticism, pedantry, pedate, pedatifid
Origin of Pedant
1580–90; < Italian pedante teacher, pedant; apparently akin to pedagogue; see -ant
Other words from Pedant
ped·ant·esque , adjective
ped·ant·hood , noun
Word origin for Pedant
C16: via Old French from Italian pedante teacher; perhaps related to Latin paedagōgus pedagogue
Synonyms for Pedant
bluestocking, bookworm, doctrinaire, dogmatist, egghead, pedagogue, methodologist, waling encyclopedia