formalist Synonyms

precisionist quibbler purist punctilious prude prig precisian precise pietist pharisee perfectionist religionist scholar Pecksniff obfuscator methodologist literalistic legalistic formalistic phoney traditionalist stickler square-toes pedantic pedant dissembler disciplinarian devotee conventionalist conservative conformist canter bourgeois bookworm Bluestocking doctrinaire dogmatic pedagogue meticulous literalist idealist hypocrite humbug fraud formal exact dogmatist affecter