pedantic (adj.)

• academic
• accordant
• affected
• anal
• arid
• bookish
• bourgeois
• compulsive
• concordant
• conformist
• conventional
• conventionalized
• convoluted
• corresponding
• declamatory
• didactic
• diligent
• doctrinaire
• donnish
• dry
• dull
• elegant
• elevated
• erudite
• euphemistic
• exact
• exquisite
• extrinsic
• fastidious
• finical
• finicky
• flamboyant
• flaming
• flashy
• formal
• formalistic
• formulary
• fulsome
• fussy
• garish
• gaudy
• goody-goody
• grandiloquent
• grandiose
• harmonious
• high-flown
• high-sounding
• highfalutin
• impersonal
• kosher
• labyrinthine
• learned
• literary
• lofty
• lurid
• magniloquent
• meretricious
• meticulous
• mincing
• namby-pamby
• nominal
• orotund
• orthodox
• ostentatious
• outward
• overdone
• overnice
• overrefined
• overwrought
• owlish
• pedagogic
• plastic
• pompous
• preachy
• precious
• pretentious
• professorial
• punctilious
• rabbinic
• rhetorical
• scholarly
• scholastic
• scrupulous
• sensational
• sensationalistic
• sententious
• showy
• sonorous
• square
• stiff
• stilted
• straight
• studious
• stuffy
• stylized
• superficial
• surface
• tall
• tortuous
• traditionalist
• tutorial
• uptight
• vain