Pedant

['ped(ə)nt] or ['pɛdnt]

解释:

(noun.) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.

格雷西校对--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

(n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

布雷特整理

同义词及近义词：

n. Pretender to learning.

编辑:特鲁迪

解释:

n. one who makes a vain display of learning: a pretender to knowledge which he does not possess: (Shak.) a pedagogue.—adjs. Pedant′ic -al displaying knowledge for the sake of showing.—adv. Pedant′ically in a pedantic manner.—ns. Pedant′icism Ped′antism.—v.i. Ped′antise to play the pedant.—ns. Pedantoc′racy government by pedants; Ped′antry acts manners or character of a pedant: vain display of learning: (Swift) the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

校对:朱莉娅