Synonyms of pedantic

1 Syllable

dry, dull

2 Syllables

priggish, formal, fussy, stodgy, stilted, pompous, learned, donnish, stodgier, arid, teachy, bookish, schoolish

3 Syllables

pansophic, theoretic, book-learned, nit-picking, scholastic, abstruse, punctilious, teacherish, polymath, teacherly, sententious, didactic, hairsplitting, little-known

4 Syllables

egotistic, academic, pedagogic, doctrinaire, ideational, ostentatious, moralizing, hortative, erudite, collegiate, recondite, preceptive, schoolmasterist, theoretical, didactical, particular, professorial, overnice, philosophic

5 Syllables

exhortative, well-educated, homiletical, lecturelike