Synonyms for pedant

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ped-nt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛd nt

Définition of pedant

Origin : 1580s, "schoolmaster," from Middle French pédant (1560s) or directly from Italian pedante, literally "teacher, schoolmaster," of uncertain origin, apparently an alteration of Late Latin paedagogantem (nominative paedagogans), present participle of paedagogare (see pedagogue). Meaning "person who trumpets minor points of learning" first recorded 1590s.

noun formalist

Example sentences :

You think yourself happy because you are wise, said a philosopher to a pedant.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

But the license is actually got: the parson is provided: the pedant Brand is the man.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Any one who questions our triumphant progress is tabooed for a pedant.
Extract from : « Another Sheaf » by John Galsworthy

He talks pleasantly, and nothing of a pedant, as I half dreaded he might be.
Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

It has been well said of him that he never became either a pedant or a doctrinaire.
Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga

The pedant, cursed with the ambition to be a ruler of men, is a curious study.
Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley

It is hard for an Englishman to be a pedant; it is not easy for a German to be anything else.
Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.
Extract from : « The History of Sir Richard Calmady » by Lucas Malet

He would be only a pedant who would take nothing because he could not get everything at once.
Extract from : « Georgina's Reasons » by Henry James

That matters very little, except to a pedant and a rhetorician.
Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren

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