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    Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters: academic, bookish, donnish, inkhorn, literary, pedantic, pedantical, scholastic. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, flexible/rigid, teach/learn.

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: concerned with or characterized by rigorous or adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art)
  Synonyms: formalized, formalised
  Pertains to noun: formalism (meaning #3)

 
 
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