Clues for the word "PEDANT"
We've had 68 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 94 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on July 19, 2026.
Definition of pedant
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Hairsplitter
- Nit-picker
- Intellectual nitpicker
- Educated show-off
- Petty point maker
- One who shows off his education
- Stickler
- One who goes strictly by the book
- Strict teacher
- Intellectual show-off
- Intellectual showoff
- Bookworm
- Petty scholar
- Teacher that goes strictly by the book
- Dogmatic one
- Bookish sort
- Bookish sort
- Overbearing scholar
- Show-offy know-it-all
- Bookish one
- Scholar
- Know-it-all, maybe
- Nit-picking type
- Educated showoff
- Scholastic
- Nitpicky know-it-all
- Scholastic exhibitionist
- Grammar stickler, e.g.
- One fussy about minor details
- Show-off scholar
- Overly meticulous scholar
- Nitpicker
- Hairsplitting scholastic
- Member of the grammar police, e.g.
- Professional showoff
- Intellectual stickler
- Bluestocking
- Formalist in teaching
- Purist
- Picky type
- The clever fellow panted excitedly
- Nit-picker takes notes in exercise books
- Stickler for trivial detail
- Academic stickler
- Point put about English and, fittingly, by academic
- The know-all gets chap in a temper
- Hair-splitter
- One overly concerned with appendage for foot soldier?
- Nit-picker gets ace fighter in a huff
- Fussy academic's huff about a newspaper leader
- Dog perhaps bites man, one picking nits?
- Dogmatic teacher
- Book-smart person
- Teacher panted excitedly
- Initially Purgatorio by Dante edited by fussy academic
- Academic priest educated worker
- Fussy schoolmaster, academic
- Perfectionist, sophist
- Know-it-all
- Someone too ocncerned with book learning and pet training
- Certain stickler for detail
- One picking nits from pet and dancing
- Nit-picker removing end of chain from necklace
- Person prone to nitpicking
- Dogmatic person
- Nitpicky person
- Well-educated showoff
- Stickler, of a sort
Last Seen In
- Daily American - July 19, 2026
- Daily American - May 29, 2026
- New York Times - October 03, 2025
- Daily American - July 03, 2025
- New York Times - May 12, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 29, 2024
- Daily American - July 18, 2024
- Daily American - May 28, 2024
- Family Time - December 11, 2023
- Daily American - July 03, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 07, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 19, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - July 29, 2022
- Daily American - July 18, 2022
- New York Times - May 01, 2022
- Guardian Quick - November 10, 2017
- New York Times - July 13, 2017
- Daily American - July 03, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 09, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 09, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 22, 2016
- Universal - August 16, 2016
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 02, 2016
- New York Times - April 02, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 29, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 20, 2015
- USA Today - August 13, 2015
- New York Times - July 17, 2015
- Universal - May 30, 2015
- LA Times - November 19, 2014
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