pedant

• Personne excessivement préoccupée par les détails, les règles formelles ou le savoir académique, au point d'en être agaçante.

A person who is excessively concerned with minor details, formal rules, or academic knowledge, often to the point of being annoying or trivial.

1. Overly formal scholarC1formal

   A person who is excessively concerned with minor details, rules, or academic knowledge, often at the expense of practical understanding.

   Pédant

   • The professor was such a pedant that he corrected everyone's grammar in casual conversation.
   • She's a pedant about historical dates, but she misses the bigger picture.
   • Don't be a pedant; the meaning of the sentence is clear even with the small error.

   Synonymesdoctrinairedogmatisthairsplitternitpickerpuristquibbler

   Antonymesdilettantepragmatist