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A person is obsessed with trying to be smart but is incredibly annoying in the process
Me: Sam is a dumb dumb
Sam: you have to use the word pedant in the dictionary example
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Showing one's intelligence more than is necessary.
David Pearce could be pedantic if he so chose.
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someone who does things "by the book" to an extent that it overrides intuition
that's one bad teacher, she's so pedantic
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A dogmatic ergo annoying person
Maddy exemplifies one perfectly
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Mark: You can't place two cards down in uno!
Toby: Stop being pedantical dude.
A tendency toward involuntary discovery of evidence suggesting widespread ignorance and/or ineptitude, esp. with regard to linguistic communication.
There were days when Lisa's instinctive pedantry threatened to overwhelm her.
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K got a lot of pedanter from pedants for subtle grammatical errors in her emails
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