How do you use Pedant in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like bookworm or scholastic, plus the exact meaning.
Pedant meaning
- A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
- A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- A teacher or schoolmaster.
Synonyms of Pedant
Using Pedant
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. | A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. | A teacher or schoolmaster.
- Useful related words include: bookworm, scholastic, scholar, scholarly person.
Context around Pedant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pedant
- In this selection, "pedant" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 18.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nickname and nor stand out and add context to how "pedant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a nickname pedant and as a pedant and a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pedant" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pedant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It's official: he's a pedant. (7 words)
He was neither a pedant nor a bigot. (8 words)
Oh for heaven’s sake, I’ve actually become a nickname pedant. (12 words)
The pedant in me would love to see the detail of what chunk is planned to flow to actual businesses making that transition, but no looking gift horses in the mouth for now. (33 words)
Historians have seen him as a "pedant and a bore", his letters offering neither the running political analysis of a Cicero or the conscientious reportage of a Pliny. (28 words)
Although many translations were already available, often produced by trained Classicists, Morris claimed that his unique perspective was as "a poet not a pedant". (24 words)
Example sentences (7)
The pedant in me would love to see the detail of what chunk is planned to flow to actual businesses making that transition, but no looking gift horses in the mouth for now.
Oh for heaven’s sake, I’ve actually become a nickname pedant.
If you hate to be a pedant, the best way to avoid it is not to be one.
It's official: he's a pedant.
Although many translations were already available, often produced by trained Classicists, Morris claimed that his unique perspective was as "a poet not a pedant".
He was neither a pedant nor a bigot.
Historians have seen him as a "pedant and a bore", his letters offering neither the running political analysis of a Cicero or the conscientious reportage of a Pliny.