schoolish

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting learned literary nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic pedantical pompous priggish punctilious scholastic sententious stilted

abstruse pompous stilted

academic arid didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal fussy hairsplitting learned nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic priggish punctilious scholastic sententious

plain simple

imprecise informal

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire donnish dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting inkhorn learned literary nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic pompous priggish punctilious scholastic sententious stilted