| NOUN | person | pedant, bookworm, scholastic | a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit |
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| Meaning | A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit. | |
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| Synonyms | bookworm, scholastic | |
| Narrower | purist | someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) |
| Broader | scholar, scholarly person, bookman, student | A learned person (especially in the humanities) |
| Spanish | escolástico, pedante | |
| Catalan | escolàstic, pedant | |
| Adjectives | pedantic | marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects |
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