'Pedant' definitions:
Definition of 'pedant'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [syn: pedant, bookworm, scholastic]
Definition of 'Pedant'
From: GCIDE
- Pedant \Ped"ant\, n. [F. p['e]dant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. paidey`ein to instruct, from pai^s boy. See Pedagogue.]
- 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] Pedantic
Synonyms of 'pedant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anal character,
- Babbitt,
- bluestocking,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- euphuist,
- fine writer,
- formalist,
- Gongorist,
- Marinist,
- methodologist,
- Middle American,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- perfectionist,
- Philistine,
- phrasemaker,
- phraseman,
- phrasemonger,
- plastic person,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisionist,
- purist,
- rhetorician,
- sheep,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- wordspinner,
- yes-man