педант — meaning in English
pedant
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English meaning
- pedant noun A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
- pettifogger noun Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.
- prig noun A person who is smugly self-righteous about proper behaviour, to an irritating degree.
Senses
педант is used for these senses in English:
- pedant A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- pettifogger Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.
- precisionist One who values precision.
- prig A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
pedant — full definition
- noun A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
- noun A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- noun A teacher or schoolmaster.
pettifogger — full definition
- noun Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.
- noun An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.