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outpedants

outpedants is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 outpedants

What is outpedants the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outpedants is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outpedant.

Words near outpedants in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outpedants (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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