Expert vs. Pundit

Expertadjective

Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.

‘I am expert at making a simple situation complex.’; ‘My cousin is an expert pianist.’;

Punditnoun

A self-professed expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.

Expertadjective

Characteristic of an expert.

‘This problem requires expert knowledge.’;

Punditnoun

A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar.

Expertnoun

A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.

‘We called in several experts on the subject, but they couldn't reach an agreement.’;

Punditnoun

(historical) A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders.

Expertnoun

(chess) A player ranking just below master.

Punditnoun

A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.

Expertadjective

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

‘A valiant and most expert gentleman.’; ‘What practice, howsoe'er expertIn fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert?’;

Punditnoun

someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

Expertnoun

An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

Pundit

A pundit is a person who offers to mass media their opinion or commentary on a particular subject area (most typically political analysis, the social sciences, technology or sport) on which they are knowledgeable (or can at least appear to be knowledgeable), or considered a scholar in said area. The term has been increasingly applied to popular media personalities.

Expertnoun

A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

Expertnoun

A sworn appraiser.

Expertverb

To experience.

‘Die would we daily, once it to expert.’;

Expertnoun

a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

Expertadjective

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;

‘adept in handicrafts’; ‘an adept juggler’; ‘an expert job’; ‘a good mechanic’; ‘a practiced marksman’; ‘a proficient engineer’; ‘a lesser-known but no less skillful composer’; ‘the effect was achieved by skillful retouching’;

Expert

An expert is somebody who has a broad and deep competence in terms of knowledge, skill and experience through practice and education in a particular field. Informally, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.