Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant. / Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.

A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.

Pedantic.

Pedantic.

plural of pedant

In a pedantic manner.

(rare) Behaving or acting in the manner of a pedant.

present participle of pedantize

simple past tense and past participle of pedantize

(intransitive) To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.