Pedant - definition of pedant by The Free Dictionary
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WEB1. hairsplitter, quibbler, doctrinaire, literalist, sophist, nit-picker (informal), dogmatist, casuist, pettifogger We thought him a pedant and a bore. 2. scholar, academic, intellectual, scholastic, bookworm, egghead (informal), pedagogue a cloistered pedant deeply immersed in the past.
DA: 37 PA: 32 MOZ Rank: 97