Search Result for "pedant":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit;
[syn: pedant, bookworm, scholastic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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] PedanticMoby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "pedant": Babbitt, Gongorist, Marinist, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, euphuist, fine writer, formalist, methodologist, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, perfectionist, phrasemaker, phraseman, phrasemonger, plastic person, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisianist, precisionist, purist, rhetorician, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, wordspinner, yes-man
