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Word | Pedant |
Portuguese Meaning | pedante |
a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit / A schoolmaster / scholar who overemphasizes book learning or technicalities / a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning. / a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details, | |
Usage | ⇒ The gold pedants are very expensive ⇒ Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a pedant rather than a scholar. ⇒ All too often, science fiction provokes the pedant in professional scientists, for whom a beautiful story can be ruined by a single petty error. —— Jerry A. Coyne, New York Times Book Review, 1 Oct. 1999 ⇒ Donoghue's a true historian, whose period detail is exacting enough to please the most pedantic of pedants , while her style displays an intimacy with the past that's both unpretentious and modern. |
Synonyms | pedagogue, doctrinaire, formalist, bookworm, dogmatist, methodologist, precisian, precisianist, prig, purist, scholastic, bluestocking, euphuist, perfectionist, stickler, conformist, scholar, mannerist, precisionist, quibbler, |
Antonyms | down-to-earth, downright, exhaustive, absolute, basal, basic, dabbler, deep, definitive, dilettante, dissenter, dissenting, dissident, eccentric, exacting, extreme, fanatical, firm, full, good, |
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