Definitions for pedant

pedant ped·ant

Spelling: [ped-nt]
IPA: /ˈpɛd nt/

Pedant is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in pedant (adenpt).

Definitions for pedant

noun

  1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
  2. a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
  3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
  4. Obsolete. a schoolmaster.

Origin of pedant

1580-90; Italian pedante teacher, pedant; apparently akin to pedagogue; see -ant

Examples for pedant

The pedant, cursed with the ambition to be a ruler of men, is a curious study.

He talks pleasantly, and nothing of a pedant, as I half dreaded he might be.

You think yourself happy because you are wise, said a philosopher to a pedant.

Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.

It is hard for an Englishman to be a pedant; it is not easy for a German to be anything else.

He would be only a pedant who would take nothing because he could not get everything at once.

It has been well said of him that he never became either a pedant or a doctrinaire.

Call me a Limbaugh pedant, but Rush is on in the afternoon; has been for 22 years.

But the license is actually got: the parson is provided: the pedant Brand is the man.

Any one who questions our triumphant progress is tabooed for a pedant.

Word Value for pedant
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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