pedant
Plural: pedants
Noun
- A person who excessively displays academic learning or rules.
- a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
- A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
- A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- A teacher or schoolmaster.
Adj
- Pedantic.
Verb
- To be or act as a pedant.
Examples
- His opponent was a pedant, constantly correcting minor rule interpretations in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
Synonyms
bookworm, scholastic, nitpicker, pedant, pettifogger, priss, smart aleck, smartass, wise guy, wiseass
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
pedant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpedant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pedant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary