pedante — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bore verb To make someone feel uninterested and tired through dullness.
- pedant noun Someone who insists on strict, minor points of language and shows off their knowledge in a boring way.
- pedantic adj Overly focused on formal rules, minor details, or technical correctness, often to an annoying degree.
Senses
pedante is used for these senses in English:
- bore One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- inkhorn (used attributively, pejorative, of vocabulary) Something or someone pedantic, obscurely scholarly.
- pedant A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- pedantic Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
- pedantic Tending to show off one’s knowledge, often in a tiresome manner.
- split hairs (idiomatic) Tedious details; minutiae.
bore — full definition
- verb To make someone feel uninterested and tired through dullness.
- verb To drill a hole through something.
- noun A person or thing that is dull and uninteresting.
- noun The inner diameter of a tube or gun barrel.
pedant — full definition
- noun Someone who insists on strict, minor points of language and shows off their knowledge in a boring way.
- noun Someone who cares too much about small, unimportant details of correctness.
- noun A person who works as a teacher or schoolmaster.
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