scholastic

Of or relating to schools; academic.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scholasticism.

Overly subtle or pedantic.

A Scholastic philosopher or theologian.

A dogmatist or pedant.

Pertaining to or suiting a scholar, school, or schools; like or characteristic of a scholar: as, a scholastic manner; scholastic phrases.

Of, pertaining to, or concerned with schooling or education; educational: as, a scholastic institution; a scholastic appointment.

Pertaining to or characteristic of scholasticism or the schoolmen; according to the methods of the Christian Aristotelians of the middle ages. See scholasticism.

Coldly intellectual and unemotional; characterized by excessive intellectual subtlety or by punctilious and dogmatic distinctions; formal; pedantic: said especially of the discussion of religious truth.