Exact Match:
- pedant
- a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Synonyms:
- Babbitt,
- Gongorist,
- Marinist,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- bluestocking,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- euphuist,
- fine writer,
- formalist,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- perfectionist,
- phrasemaker,
- phraseman,
- phrasemonger,
- plastic person,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisionist,
- purist,
- rhetorician,
- sheep,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- wordspinner,
- yes-man
Related Words:
- bluestocking
collapse - a woman having literary or intellectual interests related words >
- Babbitt,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- formalist,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- sheep,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
- Babbitt,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- formalist,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- sheep,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
- organization man
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- an employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organization related words >
- Babbitt,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- formalist,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- sheep,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
- Babbitt,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- formalist,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- sheep,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
- Cicero,
- Demosthenes,
- Gongorist,
- Marinist,
- William Jennings Bryan,
- Winston Churchill,
- elocutionist,
- euphuist,
- fine writer,
- mannerist,
- master of style,
- orator,
- pedant,
- phrasemaker,
- phraseman,
- phrasemonger,
- platform orator,
- public speaker,
- rhetor,
- soapbox orator,
- soapboxer,
- spellbinder,
- stump orator,
- stylist,
- teacher of rhetoric,
- wordspinner
- purist
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- someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) related words >
- Pharisee,
- ass,
- bigot,
- bitter-ender,
- bluestocking,
- bullethead,
- classicist,
- conservative,
- die-hard,
- diehard,
- dogmatist,
- donkey,
- fanatic,
- formalist,
- hardnose,
- intransigeant,
- intransigent,
- last-ditcher,
- maverick,
- mule,
- pedant,
- perverse fool,
- pighead,
- plain stylist,
- positivist,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precisian,
- precisionist,
- puritan,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- stickler,
- stuffed shirt,
- traditionalist
- Brahmin,
- Grundy,
- Victorian,
- bluenose,
- clout,
- conformist,
- cop,
- egghead,
- elitist,
- filch,
- filcher,
- formalist,
- genteel,
- goody-goody,
- heist,
- highbrow,
- larcener,
- larcenist,
- mandarin,
- mid-Victorian,
- nab,
- name-dropper,
- nick,
- old maid,
- pedant,
- pilfer,
- pilferer,
- precisian,
- precisionist,
- priggish,
- prissy,
- prude,
- prudish,
- purist,
- puritan,
- puritanical,
- purloiner,
- snob,
- stealer,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- straitlaced,
- stuffed shirt,
- stuffy,
- thieve,
- tufthunter
- Babbitt
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- line with a Babbitt metal related words >
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- arriviste,
- boeotian,
- boob,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- cad,
- churl,
- clown,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- epicier,
- formalist,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- middlebrow,
- model child,
- mucker,
- nouveau riche,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- ribald,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sheep,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- yes-man,
- yokel
- conformist
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- someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters)
- marked by convention and conformity to customs or rules or styles; "underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist" related words >
- Babbitt,
- Grundy,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- ape,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conventionalist,
- copier,
- copycat,
- copyist,
- counterfeiter,
- cuckoo,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- echo,
- echoer,
- echoist,
- faker,
- forger,
- formalist,
- hypocrite,
- imitator,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- mimicker,
- mocker,
- mockingbird,
- model child,
- monkey,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- phony,
- plagiarist,
- plastic person,
- poll-parrot,
- polly,
- polly-parrot,
- poseur,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- sheep,
- simulator,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
- Babbitt,
- Christian,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- big-city man,
- bourgeois,
- burgess,
- citizen,
- city dweller,
- city man,
- city slicker,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- exemplary citizen,
- exurbanite,
- formalist,
- good citizen,
- good neighbor,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- oppidan,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- pillar of society,
- plastic person,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- respectable citizen,
- sheep,
- square,
- suburbanite,
- teenybopper,
- townee,
- towner,
- townfolk,
- townfolks,
- townsman,
- townspeople,
- townswoman,
- trimmer,
- true Christian,
- urbanite,
- villager,
- villageress,
- yes-man
- Babbitt,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- bluestocking,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- captious critic,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- exquisite,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- methodical,
- methodologist,
- meticulous,
- middle-class type,
- mincing,
- model child,
- namby-pamby,
- nitpicker,
- orderly,
- organization man,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- pedantic,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- scrupulous,
- sheep,
- simpering,
- square,
- stickler,
- teenybopper,
- traditionalist,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
- Babbitt,
- High-Churchist,
- Holy Willie,
- Joseph Surface,
- Mawworm,
- Middle American,
- Pecksniff,
- Pharisee,
- Philistine,
- Sabbatarian,
- Tartuffe,
- Vicar of Bray,
- affecter,
- anal character,
- bluestocking,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- canter,
- canting hypocrite,
- chameleon,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- formularist,
- formulist,
- hypocrite,
- lip server,
- lip worshiper,
- liturgist,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- pharisee,
- pietist,
- pious fraud,
- plastic person,
- poser,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisionist,
- purist,
- ranter,
- religionist,
- religious hypocrite,
- ritualist,
- sacramentarian,
- sheep,
- sniveler,
- snuffler,
- spiritual humbug,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- temporizer,
- timepleaser,
- timeserver,
- trimmer,
- weathercock,
- whited sepulcher,
- yes-man
- perfectionist
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- a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards related words >
- Babbitt,
- Leibnizian,
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- Pollyanna,
- anal character,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- bourgeois,
- bright,
- burgher,
- captious critic,
- censorious,
- cheerful,
- chiliast,
- chiliastic,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conscientious,
- conventionalist,
- couleur de rose,
- critical,
- demanding,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- formalist,
- fuss-budget,
- fusspot,
- fussy,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- irrepressible optimist,
- methodologist,
- meticulous,
- middle-class type,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennialistic,
- millennian,
- model child,
- nit-picking,
- nitpicker,
- obsessive,
- optimist,
- optimistic,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- particular,
- pedant,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionistic,
- philosophical optimist,
- picky,
- plastic person,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- ray of sunshine,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- sheep,
- square,
- stickler,
- strict,
- sunny,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- upbeat,
- utopian,
- yes-man
- parrot
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- usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
- a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
- repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's words" related words >
- Babbitt,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- anal character,
- ape,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- come again,
- commit to memory,
- compulsive character,
- con,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- copier,
- copy,
- copycat,
- copyist,
- counterfeiter,
- cuckoo,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- ditto,
- do a repeat,
- do again,
- do over,
- double,
- duplicate,
- echo,
- echoer,
- echoist,
- faker,
- forger,
- formalist,
- get by heart,
- get letter-perfect,
- have by heart,
- hit off,
- hit off on,
- hypocrite,
- imitate,
- imitator,
- impersonate,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- know by heart,
- learn by heart,
- learn verbatim,
- memorize,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- mimicker,
- mock,
- mocker,
- mockingbird,
- model child,
- monkey,
- organization man,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- phony,
- plagiarist,
- plagiarize,
- plastic person,
- poll-parrot,
- polly,
- polly-parrot,
- poseur,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- quote,
- recite,
- redo,
- redouble,
- reduplicate,
- reecho,
- regurgitate,
- reincarnate,
- reiterate,
- renew,
- repeat,
- repeat by heart,
- reproduce,
- revive,
- say again,
- sheep,
- simulator,
- square,
- study,
- swot up,
- take off,
- take off on,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
- Babbitt,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- adolescent,
- anal character,
- babe,
- baby,
- bourgeois,
- broad,
- burgher,
- chick,
- colleen,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- cutie,
- dame,
- damoiselle,
- damsel,
- demoiselle,
- doll,
- filly,
- fledgling,
- formalist,
- frail,
- gal,
- girl,
- girlie,
- heifer,
- hopeful,
- hoyden,
- infant,
- jeune fille,
- jill,
- junior,
- junior miss,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- lass,
- lassie,
- little missy,
- mademoiselle,
- maid,
- maiden,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- minor,
- miss,
- missy,
- model child,
- nymphet,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- piece,
- plastic person,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- pubescent,
- romp,
- sapling,
- schoolgirl,
- schoolmaid,
- schoolmiss,
- sheep,
- skirt,
- slip,
- sprig,
- square,
- stripling,
- subdeb,
- subdebutante,
- subteen,
- subteener,
- teenager,
- teener,
- tomato,
- tomboy,
- trimmer,
- virgin,
- wench,
- yes-man,
- young creature,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- young thing,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth
- sheep
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- woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
- a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep"
- a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon related words >
- Babbitt,
- Columbia,
- Karakul,
- Kerry Hill,
- Lincoln,
- Merino,
- Middle American,
- Panama,
- Philistine,
- Romeldale,
- Romney,
- Suffolk,
- Wensleydale,
- anal character,
- ape,
- assembly,
- bellwether,
- bourgeois,
- brethren,
- burgher,
- churchgoers,
- class,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- congregation,
- conventionalist,
- copier,
- copycat,
- copyist,
- counterfeiter,
- cuckoo,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- echo,
- echoer,
- echoist,
- ewe,
- ewe lamb,
- faker,
- flock,
- fold,
- forger,
- formalist,
- hypocrite,
- imitator,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- jumbuck,
- laity,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- laymen,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- mimicker,
- minyan,
- mocker,
- mockingbird,
- model child,
- monkey,
- mutton,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- organization man,
- parish,
- parishioners,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- people,
- perfectionist,
- phony,
- plagiarist,
- plastic person,
- poll-parrot,
- polly,
- polly-parrot,
- poseur,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- ram,
- seculars,
- simulator,
- society,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- teg,
- trimmer,
- tup,
- wether,
- yeanling,
- yes-man
- Babbitt,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- accepter,
- anal character,
- apple-polisher,
- ass-licker,
- assentator,
- assenter,
- backscratcher,
- backslapper,
- bootlick,
- bootlicker,
- bourgeois,
- brown-nose,
- brownie,
- burgher,
- clawback,
- cog,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- consenter,
- conventionalist,
- courtier,
- covenanter,
- covenantor,
- creature,
- cringer,
- dupe,
- fawner,
- flatterer,
- flunky,
- follower,
- footlicker,
- formalist,
- groveler,
- handshaker,
- helot,
- hoi polloi,
- inferior,
- instrument,
- jackal,
- junior,
- kowtower,
- lackey,
- led captain,
- lickspit,
- lickspittle,
- lightweight,
- lower class,
- lower orders,
- masses,
- mealymouth,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- minion,
- model child,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- pawn,
- pedant,
- peon,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- puppet,
- second fiddle,
- secondary,
- serf,
- sheep,
- slave,
- spaniel,
- square,
- stooge,
- subaltern,
- subordinate,
- suck,
- sycophant,
- teenybopper,
- third stringer,
- timeserver,
- toad,
- toady,
- tool,
- trimmer,
- truckler,
- tufthunter,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- yea-sayer
- Philistine
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- a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
- a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
- of or relating to ancient Philistia or the culture of the Philistines related words >
- Babbitt,
- Babbittish,
- Gothic,
- Middle American,
- anal character,
- arriviste,
- barbarous,
- bookless,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- cad,
- callous,
- calloused,
- campy,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- case-hardened,
- churl,
- clown,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- deceived,
- earthly,
- earthy,
- epicier,
- flinty,
- formalist,
- functionally illiterate,
- general,
- grammarless,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- hard,
- hardened,
- hardhearted,
- heathen,
- high-camp,
- homely,
- homespun,
- hoodwinked,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- ill-educated,
- illiterate,
- impervious,
- indurated,
- insensitive,
- inured,
- kitschy,
- led astray,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- low-camp,
- lowbrow,
- material,
- materialistic,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- misinformed,
- misinstructed,
- mistaught,
- model child,
- mucker,
- mundane,
- nonintellectual,
- nouveau riche,
- ordinary,
- organization man,
- pachydermatous,
- pagan,
- parrot,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- popular,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- profane,
- proof against,
- public,
- ribald,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- rude,
- ruffian,
- secular,
- sheep,
- square,
- steeled against,
- steely,
- stony,
- teenybopper,
- temporal,
- terrestrial,
- thick-skinned,
- trimmer,
- unbooked,
- unbookish,
- unbooklearned,
- unbriefed,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unedified,
- uneducated,
- unerudite,
- unguided,
- uninstructed,
- unintellectual,
- unlearned,
- unlettered,
- unliterary,
- unread,
- unrefined,
- unscholarly,
- unschooled,
- unspiritual,
- unstudious,
- untaught,
- untutored,
- upstart,
- vernacular,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- worldly,
- yes-man,
- yokel
- bourgeois
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- a member of the middle class
- belonging to the middle class
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
- (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class related words >
- Babbitt,
- Babbittish,
- Cockney,
- Everyman,
- John Smith,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- accordant,
- anal,
- anal character,
- arriviste,
- average,
- average man,
- big-city man,
- boor,
- bounder,
- burgess,
- burgher,
- cad,
- campy,
- capitalist,
- churl,
- city dweller,
- city man,
- city slicker,
- clown,
- common,
- common man,
- commoner,
- commonplace,
- compulsive,
- compulsive character,
- concordant,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalist,
- corresponding,
- epicier,
- exurbanite,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- free-enterprise,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- general,
- greedy,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- harmonious,
- high-camp,
- homely,
- homespun,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- individualistic,
- kitschy,
- kosher,
- little fellow,
- little man,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- low-camp,
- materialistic,
- methodologist,
- middle-class,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- money-hungry,
- mucker,
- no great shakes,
- nonsocialistic,
- normal,
- nouveau riche,
- oppidan,
- ordinary,
- organization man,
- orthodox,
- parrot,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- pedant,
- pedantic,
- perfectionist,
- philistine,
- plastic,
- plastic person,
- pleb,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- popular,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- private-enterprise,
- proletarian,
- propertied,
- public,
- regular,
- ribald,
- roturier,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- run-of-mine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- sheep,
- square,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- suburban,
- suburbanite,
- teenybopper,
- townee,
- towner,
- townfolk,
- townfolks,
- townsman,
- townspeople,
- townswoman,
- traditionalist,
- trimmer,
- unexceptional,
- unnoteworthy,
- unremarkable,
- unspectacular,
- upstart,
- uptight,
- urbanite,
- usual,
- vernacular,
- villager,
- villageress,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- working-class,
- yes-man,
- yokel
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