Pedant GRE Vocabulary Flashcard
/ˈped.ənt/ (noun)
Definition
someone who is preoccupied with formal rules and details, doctrinaire, sophist, obfuscator, pedagogue, nitpicker, schoolmaster, theoretician, scholar, hairsplitter
Example
A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy, and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning.
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Antonym
Parts of speech
Adjective: pedantic: hairsplitting, fussy, nitpicking, doctrinaire, finicky
Adverb: pedantically
Noun: pedantry
