pedant

Speech parts

1. pedant - Noun

2. pedant - Adjective

Meaning

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

scholastic pedantic purist bookworm stickler formalist nitpicker puritan babbitt doctor burgher prude prig academic precise
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Antonyms

down-to-earth berk basic layman deep extreme
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Hypernyms

bookman scholar student scholarly person

Hyponyms

purist

Anagrams

panted pentad

Examples

Historians have seen him as a "pedant and a bore", his letters offering neither the running political analysis of a Cicero or the conscientious reportage of a Pliny. Source: Internet

He was neither a pedant nor a bigot. Source: Internet

Although many translations were already available, often produced by trained Classicists, Morris claimed that his unique perspective was as "a poet not a pedant". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

pedancy pedanda pedaneous pedantess pedantic pedantical