ALL meanings of pedant
ped·ant
P p - noun pedant nitpicker, sb overly academic 1
- noun pedant a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning. 1
- noun pedant a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details. 1
- noun pedant a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense. 1
- noun pedant Obsolete. a schoolmaster. 1
- countable noun pedant If you say that someone is a pedant, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects. 0
- noun pedant a person who relies too much on academic learning or who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail 0
- noun pedant a schoolmaster or teacher 0
- noun pedant a person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion 0
- noun pedant a narrow-minded teacher who insists on exact adherence to a set of arbitrary rules 0
- noun pedant a schoolmaster 0