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Noun Concept
Categories: Pejorative terms for people, Human behavior
EN
pedant  bookworm  scholastic  Paedant  Paedants
EN
A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit WordNet 3.0
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A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism, accuracy and precision, or one who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning. Wikipedia
Personality type; person obsessed with detail or process, often negatively perceived Wikidata
A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. Wiktionary
Person overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
scholar
personality type
homo
HAS KIND
purist
hair-splitter
DERIVATION
academic
FACET OF
pedantry
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
nitpicking
DE
Erbsenzähler
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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pedant, bookworm, scholastic
Wikipedia
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pedant
Wikidata
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pedant
Wiktionary
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pedant
Wikipedia Redirections
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Paedant, Paedants, pedante, Pedantes, Pedantess, Pedanthood, pedantic, Pedanticalness, Pedanticism, Pedantries, Pedants, Pædant, Pædants, pédant, Pédants

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