Synonyms of pedants

pedants

noun

plural of pedant

as in teachers

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

• teachers
• instructors
• educators
• academicians
• academics
• academes
• pedagogues
• critics
• schoolteachers
• purists
• educationists
• perfectionists
• preceptors
• didacts
• quibblers
• hairsplitters
• pettifoggers
• criticasters
• faultfinders

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pedants

Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris. — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026

As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit. — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025