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PEDANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Synonyms:
bookworm; pedant; scholastic
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pedant" is a kind of...):
bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedant"):
purist (someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words))
Derivation:
pedantic (marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects)
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