pedant

ped·ant

P0144200 (pĕd′nt)n.1. One who ostentatiously exhibits academic knowledge or who pays undue attention to minor details or formal rules.2. Obsolete A schoolmaster.

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[French pédant or Italian pedante (French, from Italian), possibly from Vulgar Latin *paedēns, *paedent-, present participle of *paedere, to instruct, probably from Greek paideuein, from pais, paid-, child; see pedo-².]

pedant

(ˈpɛdənt) n1. a person who relies too much on academic learning or who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail2. (Education) archaic a schoolmaster or teacher[C16: via Old French from Italian pedante teacher; perhaps related to Latin paedagōgus pedagogue]

ped•ant

(ˈpɛd nt)

n. 1. a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning. 2. a person who overemphasizes rules or details, esp. in teaching. 3. a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense. 4. Obs. a schoolmaster. [1580–90; < Italian pedante teacher, pedant; appar. akin to pedagogue]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

pedant - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they meritbookworm, scholasticpurist - someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)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

pedant

noun1. hairsplitter, quibbler, doctrinaire, literalist, sophist, nit-picker (informal), dogmatist, casuist, pettifogger We thought him a pedant and a bore.2. scholar, academic, intellectual, scholastic, bookworm, egghead (informal), pedagogue a cloistered pedant deeply immersed in the past

Translations

卖弄学问的人学究

pedant

(ˈpedənt) noun1. a person who makes a great show of his knowledge. 賣弄學問的人 卖弄学问的人2. a person who attaches too much importance to minor details. 學究 学究peˈdantic (-ˈdӕn-) adjective 學究式的，迂腐的 学究式的，迂腐的 peˈdantically adverb 賣弄學問地，迂腐地 卖弄学问地，迂腐地 ˈpedantry noun 賣弄學問，迂腐 卖弄学问，迂腐