Synonyms of donnish

1 Syllable

dry, dull

2 Syllables

priggish, formal, fussy, inkhorn, stilted, pompous, learned, arid, teachy, schoolish

3 Syllables

nit-picking, scholastic, abstruse, punctilious, teacherish, teacherly, sententious, didactic, hairsplitting, pedantic

4 Syllables

egotistic, academic, pedagogic, doctrinaire, ostentatious, hortative, erudite, preceptive, schoolmasterist, didactical, particular, overnice

5 Syllables

exhortative, homiletical, lecturelike