pedant

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 pĕdʹənt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
  2. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  3. A teacher or schoolmaster. archaic
    — I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
动词 v.
  1. To be or act as a pedant. humorous,rare
    — […] as any occasion of going behond^([sic – meaning beyond]) the sea with sombody, or pedanting in some Gentlemans house, &c., for clergy-employment I will accept of none.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pedantic. not-comparable

词形变化

pedants plural pædant alternative,obsolete pædant alternative,obsolete pedants present,singular,third-person pedanting participle,present pedanted participle,past pedanted past pædant alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
nitpicker pedant pettifogger priss smart aleck smartass wiseass wise guy
反义词
maverick
衍生词
outpedant pedancy pedantess pedantic pedantical pedantise pedantism pedantize pedantly pedantocracy pedantocrat pedantry
相关词
buzzkill caviler formalist fusser hairsplitter nazi neatnik perfectionist precisian precisianist precisionist purist rulemonger stickler tightass fastidious complainer

词源

词源 1
From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
词源 2
From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
词源 3
From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
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