| Pedant 1. (n.) One who makes a vain display of learning and use of formal rules; a pretender to superior knowledge. 2. (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Thesaurus Entries Babbitt, Gongorist, Marinist, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, euphuist, fine writer, formalist, methodologist, middle-class type, model child, organization man, parrot, perfectionist, phrasemaker, phraseman, phrasemonger, plastic person, precieuse, precieux, precisian, precisianist, precisionist, purist, rhetorician, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, wordspinner, yes-man |