pedant

one who acts in the role as teacher/lecturer, often without invitation. Usually considered pejorative.

Check out that dude over there: he's a pedant. If you say the word 'grape', he'll be talking about wine for a long, long time.

by tom carbon January 31, 2010

pedantics

Noun (malapropism): Pedantic semantics

I do not care for your pedantics, Annie. I will use my words how I choose.

by Tastiest Avenger September 11, 2023

Pedant

A person is obsessed with trying to be smart but is incredibly annoying in the process

Me: Sam is a dumb dumb
Sam: you have to use the word pedant in the dictionary example

by Sam is a dumb dumbdumb l July 9, 2020

pedant

A dogmatic ergo annoying person

Maddy exemplifies one perfectly

by Timothy February 15, 2005

Pedantical

The act of being pedantic.

Mark: You can't place two cards down in uno!
Toby: Stop being pedantical dude.

by fleshinragz September 22, 2022

pedanter

Pedantic banter

K got a lot of pedanter from pedants for subtle grammatical errors in her emails

by pastanoodle February 5, 2011

comparably pedantic

When two assholes try to out-asshole each other in an Internet bitch fight.

"If your statement was never supposed to be read as anything more than a synonym for 'Russia is not good and not our friend' then sorry for being comparably pedantic, I guess.

by JormanThoad February 24, 2017