Synonyms of pedants

pedants

noun

plural of pedant

as in teachers

disapproving a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details

They found the professor to be a dull pedant more concerned with the intricacies of punctuation than the craft of writing.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teachers
• instructors
• educators
• academicians
• academics
• academes
• pedagogues
• critics
• schoolteachers
• purists
• pedagogs
• educationists
• perfectionists
• preceptors
• didacts
• quibblers
• faultfinders
• hairsplitters
• pettifoggers
• criticasters