Pedant
51pedant — ped|ant [ pednt ] noun count someone who gives too much importance to details and formal rules, especially of grammar. This word shows that you dislike people like this …
52pedant — , pedagogue The two are synonyms. They describe someone who makes an ostentatious show of his learning or is dogmatically fussy about rules. Some dictionaries still give pedagogue as a synonym for teacher or educator, but its pejorative sense… …
53pedant — ped·ant || pedÉ™nt n. meticulous person, fastidious person; strict person, fussy person; person who strictly adheres to information in books without using common sense …
54pedant — panted …
55pedant — n. 1. Schoolmaster, pedagogue. 2. Vain scholar, conceited scholar, ostentatious man of learning …
56pedant — noun pedants insist that the twenty first century starts with 2001 Syn: dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire, perfectionist; quibbler, hair splitter, casuist, sophist; informal nitpicker …
57pedant — n 1. intellectual, pedagogue, Inf. know it all; bibliophile, bookworm, scholar, highbrow, Inf. egghead, Inf. walking encyclopedia; aesthete, Inf. longhair, bluestocking; platitudinizer, Inf. bromide, bore, stuffed shirt; attitudinarian,… …
58pedant — ped·ant …
59pedant — n. person making display of his or her learning; learned person paying excessive attention to details; precisian. ♦ pedantic, a. ♦ pedanticism, ♦ pedantry, n …
60pedant — pe|dant sb., en, er, erne (nøjeregnende person der går op i småting) …
