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outpedanting

outpedanting is the present participle and gerund of outpedant.

Meaning of outpedant

Verb

outpedant (third-person singular simple present outpedants, present participle outpedanting, simple past and past participle outpedanted)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in pedantry.
    • So I say outpedant the pedants, and allow yourself to gluttonously revel in the linguistic improprieties of yore as you familiarize yourself with the nearly unique enormity of the gloriously mistaken heritage that our literature is comprised of.2009 October 4, Ammon Shea, “Error-Proof”, in New York Times

Questions about outpedanting

What is outpedanting the present participle and gerund of?
Outpedanting is the present participle and gerund of outpedant.

Words near outpedanting in the dictionary

  1. outpealed
  2. outpealing
  3. outpeals
  4. outpedant
  5. outpedanted
  6. outpedanting
  7. outpedants
  8. outpeep
  9. outpeeped
  10. outpeeping
  11. outpeeps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outpedanting (page history and authors); outpedant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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