PEDANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does pedant mean? • PEDANT (noun)
The noun PEDANT has 1 sense:
1. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Familiarity information: PEDANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PEDANT (noun)
Meaning:
A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bookworm; pedant; scholastic
Hypernyms ("pedant" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedant"):
purist (someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words))
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