Synonyms of pedant

pedant

noun

as in teacher

disapproving a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details

They found the professor to be a dull pedant more concerned with the intricacies of punctuation than the craft of writing.

Related Words

• teacher
• instructor
• educator
• academe
• academician
• pedagogue
• schoolteacher
• academic
• critic
• purist
• perfectionist
• educationist
• preceptor
• didact
• quibbler
• pettifogger
• hairsplitter
• faultfinder
• criticaster

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pedant

Incidentally, for the pedants out there (WIRED salutes you), technically this is not a jet ski, but a personal watercraft, or PWC. — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023

As knowledge of Greek has become more exotic—the mark of pedants, nerds, and graduates of expensive schools—capturing the barbarism of ancient Greek, and of the ancient Greeks themselves, has become harder. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2023

True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible. — Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022

The highest-energy moment comes when Rob Brydon and David Mitchell have a pedant off about Jeremy Clarkson’s firing. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022