pedantic Synonyms

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