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pedant
[ ped-nt ]
noun
- a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
- a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
Synonyms:
- a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
- Obsolete. a schoolmaster.
pedant
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noun
- a person who relies too much on academic learning or who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail
- archaic.a schoolmaster or teacher
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è±ð»åa²Ô³Ù·±ð²õ±ç³Ü±ð adjective
- ±è±ð»åa²Ô³Ù·³ó´Ç´Ç»å noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pedant1
Example Sentences
However relevant the stereotypical, silence-enforcing librarian remains in the popular imagination, Mychal Threets wants to dispel any lingering notion of the library as a dry, humorless place, lorded over by rigid pedants.
To please the pedants among you the original phrase "winter of our discontent" comes from the opening line of Shakespeare's Richard III.
Once, having demanded that a headline combine several complex elements in a short word count, he found the result wanting: “As if written by pedants from Mars,†he declared.
Her Timlin is a squeaky-voiced pedant whose awkwardness masks personal and professional ambitions, as well as a lust for Saul that briefly threatens to transform “Crimes of the Future†into a triangle.
As any pedant will tell you, May is not technically summer.
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