pedant Synonyms

formalist stickler nitpicker pedantic scholastic bookworm purist picky pernickety choosy faultfinder traditionalist teacher egghead square-toes puritan quibbling quibbler scholar scrupulous sophist splitter formalistic hard-liner legalistic methodologist obfuscator Ph.D. precisionist rule-bound waling encyclopedia hard taskmaster babbitt doctrinarian dogmatic dogmatist educator euphuist fastidious academic fussy doctrinaire doctor disciplinarian Bluestocking burgher carping casuist censorious conformer