adj. Function: adjective
too narrowly concerned with scholarly matters FF1C; intellectual life that was pedantic rather than broad and humane FF1E;
Synonyms: academic, bookish, book-learned, booky, quodlibetic, scholastic
Related Words: erudite, learned; didactic, donnish, inkhorn, schoolish, schoolteacherish; arid, dry, dryasdust, dull
Antonyms: unpedantic