pedant

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
2. noun A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
3. noun A teacher or schoolmaster.
4. adjective Pedantic.
5. verb To be or act as a pedant.

Similar words

scholastic bookworm hairsplitter precisian gerund-grinder geekster proser prater overposter grammarian

Often followed by

and who in of or is would to as

Word family

pedants