Definition of pedant

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Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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Pedant :: Pedant (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
Pedantocracy :: Pedantocracy (n.) The sway of pedants.
Bookish :: Bookish (a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences..
Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Bluestockingism :: Bluestockingism (n.) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) A literary lady; a female pedant.
Inkhorn :: Inkhorn (a.) Learned; pedantic; affected.
Pedanticly :: Pedanticly (adv.) Pedantically.
Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
Pedantry :: Pedantry (n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning..
Pedantical :: Pedantical (a.) Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation..
Pedantic :: Pedantic (a.) Alt. of Pedantica.
Pedantically :: Pedantically (adv.) In a pedantic manner.
Pedanty :: Pedanty (n.) An assembly or clique of pedants.
Scholastic :: Scholastic (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal..
Blue :: Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
Inkhornism :: Inkhornism (n.) Pedantry.
Pedantism :: Pedantism (n.) The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry..
Pedagogue :: Pedagogue (n.) One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant..
Pedantize :: Pedantize (v. i.) To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
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