Pedant synonyms

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phrasemonger
(Derogatory) One who uses overelaborate or wordy phrases.
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formalist
An overly formal person, especially one who adheres to current forms; a stickler
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doctrinaire
A person who dogmatically seeks to apply theories regardless of the practical problems involved
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methodologist
Person who studies methodology, or applies its principles
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precisian
Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler.
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bluestocking
A woman with strong scholarly or literary interests.
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bookworm
Any of various insects, especially booklice and silverfish, that infest books and feed on the paste in the bindings.
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pedagogue
The definition of a pedagogue is an educator or a teacher who is very strict or by-the-book.
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egghead
(Pejorative) An intellectual.
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scholastic
(Philosophy) a member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian
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gongorist
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phrasemaker
One who makes attractive but often meaningless phrases.
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Find another word for pedant. In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pedant, like: phrasemonger, formalist, doctrinaire, dogmatist, methodologist, precisian, bluestocking, bookworm, pedagogue, egghead and scholastic.
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Pedant Sentence Examples

  • A kindly old pedant, Fulcher interlards his history with much discourse on geography, zoology and sacred history.

  • It is plain that Prodicus was an affected pedant; yet his simple conventional morality found favour, and Plato (Rep. 600 C) couples him with Protagoras in his testimony to the popularity of the sophists and their teaching.

  • I hate to sound like an old pedant but this is the normal definition of ' unpredictable ' not ' random ' .

  • It was the history, the realia of the literature, that always interested him; he did not care for Arabic poetry as such, and the then much praised Hariri seemed to him a grammatical pedant.

  • Certainly there hangs about him a slight air of the comic pedant.

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