1. A schoolmaster.
2. A person who makes a vain display of his learning.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
Ostentatious of learning; vainly displaying or making a show of knowledge; applied to persons or things; as a pedantic writer or scholar; a pedantic description or expression.
Alt. of Pedantical
Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.
With a vain or boastful display of learning.
In a pedantic manner.
The sway of pedants.
1. Vain ostentation of learning; a boastful display of knowledge of any kind.
3. Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.
The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
Scholar Roget’s Thesaurus §492
N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, mezzofanti, admirable crichton, mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned theban, don, artium baccalaureus, artium magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, dr. pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy
Adj. learned, brought up at the feet of gamaliel
Phr. "he was a scholar and a ripe and good one", "the manifold linguist"
Ignoramus Roget’s Thesaurus §493
N. ignoramus, dunce, wooden spoon, no scholar, # moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole, dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar, charlatan, wiseacre, greenhorn, amateur, novice, tyro, numskull, lubber, fool, pedant
Adj. bookless, shallow, ignorant
Phr. "a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits"
Affectation Roget’s Thesaurus §855
N. affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense, (ostentation) 882, boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan
V. affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs, boast, coquet, simper, mince, attitudinize, pose, flirt a fan, overact, overdo
Adj. affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental
Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"
No Bible verses found for "PEDANT".