Other forms: pundits
A pundit is an expert who comments publicly on their subject. Ask a pundit.
The word has picked up a note of scepticism, since prediction is the usual job. A pundit is rarely asked afterwards whether the last prediction was right.
1nounpunditAn expert who comments publicly on their subject.
“Every pundit called it wrong and none of them mentioned it later.”
pundit is a person.
Hindi pandit, from Sanskrit pandita, a learned man; it entered English from India in the eighteenth century.
Hindi
पंडित
English, today
pundit
Borrowed from Hindi पंडित. Borrowed from Hindi पंडित / Urdu پنڈت, from Sanskrit पण्डित (“scholar, learned man, teacher, philosopher”). a doublet of pandit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA