pedant

pedant
n
1. intellectual, pedagogue, Inf. know-it-all; bibliophile, bookworm, scholar, highbrow, Inf. egghead, Inf. walking encyclopedia; aesthete, Inf. longhair, bluestocking; platitudinizer, Inf. bromide, bore, stuffed shirt; attitudinarian, attitudinizer, phi-losophaster, philosophe, moralizer.
2. precisionist, perfectionist; pettifogger, hairsplit-ter, quibbler, Inf. nitpicker; casuist, Logic. parologist, sophist, scholastic, subtilizer; caviler, faultfinder, prig; formalist, literalist, precisian, dogmatist, conformist, conventionalist, philistine.
3. doctrinaire, impractical theorist, ivory-tower dreamer, ideologist, visionary.

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  • pédant — pédant, ante [ pedɑ̃, ɑ̃t ] n. et adj. • pedante 1560; it. pedante, du gr. paideuin « éduquer, enseigner » 1 ♦ N. m. Vx (souvent péj.) Celui qui enseigne aux enfants. « M. Joubert, morne pédant montagnard [...] qui me montrait le latin »… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • pedant — PEDÁNT, Ă, pedanţi, te, adj., s.m. şi f. 1. adj. (Despre oameni şi manifestările lor) Cu pretenţii de erudiţie şi de competenţă deosebită; meticulos; minuţios peste măsură; pedantic, pedantesc. 2. s.m. şi f. Persoană care face mereu paradă de… …   Dicționar Român

  • Pedant — Sm std. (17. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus frz. pédant (auch: Schulmeister ), dieses aus it. pedante, vielleicht zu gr. paideúein erziehen, bilden, unterrichten (Pädagogik). Die Bezeichnung für Schulmeister wird mit abwertendem Nebenton… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • pedant — pèdant (pedȁnt) m <G mn nātā> DEFINICIJA 1. onaj koji je strog, savjestan u ispunjavanju formalnih zahtjeva (u znanosti, u životu i sl.) 2. pejor. nekreativna osoba koja se iscrpljuje u pojedinostima i sitničavostima; cjepidlaka ETIMOLOGIJA …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Pedant — Ped ant, n. [F. p[ e]dant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. ? to instruct, from pai^s boy. See {Pedagogue}.] 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. [1913 Webster] A pedant that keeps a school i th church. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. One who puts on an… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pedant — [ped′ nt] n. [Fr pédant, pedant, schoolmaster < It pedante, ult. < Gr paidagōgos: see PEDAGOGUE] 1. a person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of… …   English World dictionary

  • pedant — 1580s, schoolmaster, from M.Fr. pédant (1560s), from It. pedante teacher, schoolmaster, apparently an alteration of L.L. paedagogantem (nom. paedagogans), prp. of paedagogare (see PEDAGOGUE (Cf. pedagogue)). Meaning person who trumpets minor… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Pedant — »Kleinigkeits , Umstandskrämer, Haarspalter«: Das Fremdwort wurde um 1600 aus frz. pédant »Schulmeister; engstirniger Kleinigkeitskrämer« entlehnt, das seinerseits aus gleichbed. it. pedante stammt. It. pedante gehört wohl zu griech. paideúein… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

  • pedant — {{/stl 13}}{{stl 8}}rz. mos I, Mc. pedantncie; lm M. pedantnci {{/stl 8}}{{stl 7}} człowiek wykonujący coś z przesadną dokładnością, nadmiernie drobiazgowy : {{/stl 7}}{{stl 10}}Denerwujący pedant. Być pedantem w badaniach, w pracach domowych.… …   Langenscheidt Polski wyjaśnień

  • pedant — ► NOUN ▪ a person excessively concerned with minor detail or with displaying technical knowledge. DERIVATIVES pedantic adjective pedantically adverb pedantry noun. ORIGIN French pédant, probably related to PEDAGOGUE(Cf. ↑pedagogue) …   English terms dictionary

  • Pedant — (v. ital. Pedante, Schulmeister), Einer, welcher allzugeflissentlich sich an eine Regel hält, die, nur in einem bestimmten Kreise u. unter gewissen Bedingungen anwendbar, er gleichwohl im geselligen Leben auch dann befolgt, wo andere u. höhere… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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