pedantic Synonyms

academic donnish fussy pedantical pretentious ostentatious precise stodgy purist stilted perfectionist sermonic sententious scrupulous scholastic scholarly quibbling pompous punctilious professorial priggish preceptorial theoretic tutorial literalistic nit-picking nit-picky preachy priggishly schoolmasterly stagily teacherish overcritical hair-splitting formalistic well-read well-rounded anal retentive persnickety semiformal donnishly pernickety picky teachy pedant academical chop-logic collegiate conventionalized didactic