pedantic [adjective]: excessively concerned with academic and technical details.
Example: We found him pedantic and unwilling to accept anything that was not confirmed by the holy texts.
Related words: pedantically [adverb], pedanticism [noun], pedant [noun], pedantry [noun]
Synonyms: academic, bookish, didactic, doctrinaire, dogmatic, learned, professorial, recondite, scholarly
Antonyms: imprecise, incurious, informal
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