Word Meanings - PEDANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak. 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant,

Additional info about word: PEDANT

1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak. 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. Goldsmith.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PEDANT)

• Coxcomb
• Fop
• dandy
• puppy
• prig
• pedant

Related words: (words related to PEDANT)

• DANDY
  dandiner to waddle, to play the fool; prob. allied to E. dandle. 1. One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb. A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. A small sail carried at or near the
• PEDANTY
  An assembly or clique of pedants. Milton.
• DANDYLING
  A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
• PUPPYISM
  Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. A. Chalmers.
• DANDYISE; DANDYIZE
  To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
• PUPPYISH
  Like a puppy.
• PUPPYHOOD
  The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.
• COXCOMB
  A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb. (more info) A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
• COXCOMBICAL
  Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.
• PEDANTICLY
  Pedantically.
• PUPPY
  The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp. 2. A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person. I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm. Addison.
• PEDANTIC; PEDANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.
• PEDANTRY
  The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.
• PEDANTISM
  The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.
• PEDANT
  1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak. 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant,
• DANDY-COCK; DANDY-HEN
  A bantam fowl.
• PEDANTIZE
  To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
• COXCOMBLY
  like a coxcomb. "You coxcombly ass, you!" Beau & Fl.
• PEDANTOCRACY
  The sway of pedants. J. S. Mill.
• COXCOMBRY
  The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.
• BUMBLEPUPPY
  The old game of nineholes. 2. Whist played in an unscientific way.
• HANDY-DANDY
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
• JACK-A-DANDY
  A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.