pedant

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Come on, man, you're just being a pedant here.

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a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

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noun

a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pedant.

noun

a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Example sentences

Come on, man, you're just being a pedant here.

Can’t help being a pedant but the plural of synopsis is synopses.

" I say this not to be a pedant, but because it made your otherwise good post difficult to read.

But it's something like: if you wanna be rich, don't waste your time being pedant - your users couldn't care less.

1024 meters is only a kibimeter if you're a pedant.

A tiny tip coming from a friendly place, if I may- your comment comes off as slightly pedant and elitist.

Stop parroting buzzwords - nobody likes a pedant.

Furthering our wanderings down this off-topic thread, I agree with you completely, but every time I point it out, I get accused of being a "pedant".

I really hate to be a "genre pedant", but Dubstep is a descendant of garage, dub, drum and bass and a few other styles from the very late 90s early 00s in England.

Insist on its proper use as a logical fallacy and you're a pedant; misuse it and draw the ire of grammarians and Aristotelians.

To out-pedant you: even assuming that the differential collision attacks we know about are incorrect [1], we absolutely know how to break SHA-1 given enough compute, that is, roughly the same resources needed to break RSA-1024.