Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pedant

1 sense of pedant

Sense 1
pedant, bookworm, scholastic -- (a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit)
       => scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student -- (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)