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pedant

/ped-nt/US // ˈpɛd nt //UK // (ˈpɛdənt) //

书呆子,学究,迂腐者,学究气

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
    • : a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details.
    • : a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense.
    • : Obsolete. a schoolmaster.

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Examples

  • Call me a Limbaugh pedant, but Rush is on in the afternoon; has been for 22 years.

  • In a few years the girl he had married would be a plain and prickly little pedant—ill-bred besides—and he knew it.

  • I have not wanted friends, even among strangers, who have defended me more strongly, than my contemptible pedant could attack me.

  • Yes; but the Wagner sort of pedant would get entangled in his round of history—in his historical resemblances.

  • Aldus the younger, was a precocious scholar, of the pedant type, and under him the traditions of the family rapidly fell.

  • The man of routine, the mere pedant, the mere deprecator of mistakes, asks always for a precedent.