PEDANTIC
- PEDANT, one who flaunts his knowledge [adj]
- ostentatious in one's learning
- overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching
- Pedantic describes someone or something that exhibits the characteristics of a pedant—that is, a person who often annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details. Pedantic also means “narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned.”
- relating to a pedant [adj]