pedantic
adjective
[ pɪˈdantɪk ]
• excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.
• "his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic"
Similar:
overscrupulous,
scrupulous,
precise,
exact,
over-exacting,
perfectionist,
precisionist,
punctilious,
meticulous,
fussy,
fastidious,
finical,
finicky,
dogmatic,
purist,
literalist,
literalistic,
formalist,
scholastic,
casuistic,
casuistical,
sophistic,
sophistical,
captious,
hair-splitting,
quibbling,
pettifogging,
fault-finding,
hypercritical,
cavilling,
carping,
nitpicking,
pernickety,
persnickety,
overnice,
learned,
cerebral,
didactic,
bookish,
pedagogic,
donnish,
highbrow,
ivory-tower,
pretentious,
pompous,
intellectual,
academic,
scholarly,
literary,
egghead,
