Pedant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PEDANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who parades or reveres excessively academic learning or technical knowledge
• a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning
• person who is excessively concerned with details and rules
• A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
• One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
• a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one who flaunts his knowledge
• one who flaunts his or her knowledge

Words related to PEDANT

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Words that contain PEDANT

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How to use PEDANT in a sentence

• She desires to make herself useful to somebody, and marries a narrow, jealous, aristocratic pedant, who had spent his life in elaborate studies on a dry and worthless subject.
• Poor Laud seems to me to have been weak and ill-starred, not dishonest an unfortunate Pedant rather than anything worse.
• These are all psychological studies, in which the poet gets into the inner consciousness of a monster, a pedant, a criminal, and a quack, and gives their point of view.
• Heger struck me as a tiresome pedant, and I wondered how Charlotte could ever have put up with him.
• Leigh is, I presume, the contemptible pedant, and the Sir Fastidious Brisk of Oxford.
• Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence and command.
• Never take the judgment, Williams, upon such a subject, of a clerical pedant or a Westminster justice.
• Being resolved to judge between the rival scholarship of an Oxford pedant and a captain in the army, he gets both to speak Greek before him.
• The pedant or the conceited person silently drifted away.
• Moreover, I have never been a man of routine, have never shown myself a pedant, who is obliged to hold fast to certain ideas and views.
• The pedant still does the cause of education incalculable injury.
• There was nothing of the pedant in his nature, nothing about him of the doctor but his title.
• It may be exhibited as one of the most extravagant inventions of a pedant.
• The pedant, again, would feel his bumps, prescribe a gentle course of bromide, and hope to cure all the sins of the world by a municipal Turkish bath.
• Apollonius Rhodius is, no doubt, much of a pedant, a literary writer of epic, in an age of Criticism.
• There was nothing of the scholarly prig or pedant about him.
• That his writing has quality and flavour none but a pure pedant would deny.
• They thought him an eccentric sort of pedant, and they made no advances towards him, being able to do very well without him.
• Yet Lord Macaulay could not refrain from a sneer at Plutarch as a pedant who thought himself a great philosopher and a great politician.
• But was not Boswell a pedant? Was he a philosopher? Macaulay himself has penned many biographies.
• All this science, however, did not render him a pedant, nor destroy his ease of manner in society.
• The pedant quickly came back, carrying a large basket in each hand, and with a triumphant air placed a huge pasty of most tempting appearance in the middle of the table.
• He turned his attention to the ladies first, and it perhaps will not be out of place to give a little sketch of them here, while the pedant attacks the gigantic game pasty.
• The pedant and the tyrant were loudly discussing the respective merits of tragedy and comedy.
• In the other room the pedant slept soundly, with his head on the table, and the tyrant opposite to him snored like a giant.
• It is only too evident that some one is trying to put you out of the way, quibuscumque viis, as the pedant would say.
• An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

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