Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters

• academic

  1. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical:
  2. Having to do with general or liberal rather than technical or vocational education
  3. Of or relating to studies that rely on reading and involve abstract thought rather than being primarily practical or technical.

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  1. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical:
  2. Having to do with general or liberal rather than technical or vocational education
  3. Of or relating to studies that rely on reading and involve abstract thought rather than being primarily practical or technical.

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• bookish

  1. Literary, formal, or erudite. Used of language.
  2. Relying chiefly on book learning rather than practical experience; impractical or unworldly:
  3. Inclined to read and study; literary; scholarly

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  1. Literary, formal, or erudite. Used of language.
  2. Relying chiefly on book learning rather than practical experience; impractical or unworldly:
  3. Inclined to read and study; literary; scholarly

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• donnish

  1. Of or like a university don; specif., intellectual, bookish, pedantic, etc.
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a university don.
  3. (Of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.

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  1. Of or like a university don; specif., intellectual, bookish, pedantic, etc.
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a university don.
  3. (Of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.

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• formalistic

  1. Formalist

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  1. Formalist

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• inkhorn

  1. Pedantic; bookish
  2. Affectedly or ostentatiously learned; pedantic:

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  1. Pedantic; bookish
  2. Affectedly or ostentatiously learned; pedantic:

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• literary

  1. Of, having the nature of, or dealing with literature
  2. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing.
  3. Of, relating to, or dealing with literature:

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  1. Of, having the nature of, or dealing with literature
  2. Appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing.
  3. Of, relating to, or dealing with literature:

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• pedantical

  1. Pedantic.

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  1. Pedantic.

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• scholastic

  1. Pedantic, dogmatic, formal, etc.
  2. Of schools, colleges, universities, students, teachers, and studies; educational; academic
  3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scholasticism.

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  1. Pedantic, dogmatic, formal, etc.
  2. Of schools, colleges, universities, students, teachers, and studies; educational; academic
  3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scholasticism.

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