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Showing words for PEDANT using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Pedant

panted, pedant, pentad

5 Letter Words for Pedant

adept, anted, apted, dante, denat, enapt, entad, paned, pated, paten, penda, penta, taped, tapen

4 Letter Words for Pedant

aden, adet, anet, ante, aped, ated, dane, dant, date, dean, dent, depa, dept, detn, etna, nape, neap, neat, nepa, pand, pane, pant, patd, pate, pean, peat, peda, pend, pent, peta, tade, taed, taen, tane, tape, tead, tean, teap, tend, tepa

3 Letter Words for Pedant

ade, adp, and, ane, ant, ape, apt, ate, atp, dae, dan, dap, dat, dea, den, dep, det, dna, dpt, ead, ean, eat, edp, end, epa, eta, nad, nae, nap, nat, nea, ned, nep, net, pad, pan, pat, pdn, pea, ped, pen, pet, pta, pte, tad, tan, tap, tea, ted, ten, tpd

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