scholarly person vs pedant

pedant vs scholarly person

scholarly person and pedant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scholarly person	Yes	No	No	No
pedant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pedant is a hyponym of scholarly person; that is, pedant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scholarly person:

scholarly person: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
pedant: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Other hyponyms of scholarly person include academician, schoolman, alum, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, master, mujtihad, musicologist, bookworm, scholastic, philomath, philosopher, post doc, postdoc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, Renaissance man, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholarly person (noun)	pedant (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

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