pedant Synonyms

bookworm scholastic hard taskmaster teacher stickler square-toes splitter sophist scholar rhetorician quibbler puritan purist prude priggish traditionalist verbalist waling encyclopedia precisionist Ph.D. organization man obfuscator methodologist hard-liner fusser egghead nitpicker faultfinder fuss-budget wiseacre prig precisianist educator dogmatist doctrinarian doctrinaire doctor disciplinarian conventionalist conformist conformer casuist burgher Bluestocking babbitt euphuist formalist precisian pompous pettifogger