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pedant n. 炫學者,自夸學者的人,空談家 炫學者,自誇學者的人,空談家 pedant n 1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [ synonym: { pedant}, { bookworm}, { scholastic}] Pedant \ Ped" ant\, n. [ F. p[' e] dant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. paidey` ein to instruct, from pai^ s boy. See { Pedagogue}.] 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [ Obs.] -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] A pedant that keeps a school i' th' church. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. -- Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster] Pedantic39 Moby Thesaurus words for " pedant": Babbitt, Gongorist, Marinist, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, euphuist, fine writer, formalist, methodologist, middle- class type, model child, organization man, parrot, perfectionist, phrasemaker, phraseman, phrasemonger, plastic person, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisianist, precisionist, purist, rhetorician, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, wordspinner, yes- man
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