Pedant
nounid
113327·updated May 18, 2026verified
a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- scholastic
- plural
- Pedants
- possessive
- Pedant's
- pluralpossessive
- Pedants'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
- §1 · legacy_primary
- a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they meritDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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