Pedantic
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner. Being finicky or picky with language.
Example sentence: A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Academic
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning.Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.Being scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.Conforming to set rules and traditions.Having an aptitude for study.Having no practical importance.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.A person who attends an academy.One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
Example sentence: It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.