1) Insipid 2) Tedious 3) Uncommonly dull 1) Pedant 2) Stuffy 
Dryasdust was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels; thereafter, a derisory term for anyone who presents historical facts with no feeling for the personalities involved. `Dryasdust” is mentioned in a whole introductory chapter of Thomas Carlyle’s Olive.....