bookish

bookish
adj
1. literary, lettered, literate, learned, erudite, educated, well-educated; conversant, knowledgeable, well-read, informed, well-posted, well-grounded, well-schooled, accomplished; intellectual, cerebral, brainy, highbrow or highbrowed; bibliophi-listic, bibliophilic; studious, scholarly, diligent, sedulous, conscientious, industrious, assiduous.
2. academic, theoretical, hypothetical, abstract, notional, ideational, speculative; unrealistic, impractical, ivory-towerish, Utopian, visionary.
3. pedantic, pedantical, scholastic, pedagoguish, donnish, precise, punctilious, exact, meticulous, fastidious, fussy, finicky, particular; stilted, formal, stiff, stuffy, dry; rigid, narrow, hidebound; platitudinous, unimaginative, unoriginal, uninteresting; boring, dull, tedious, tiresome.

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  • Bookish — Book ish, a. 1. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. A bookish man. Addison. Bookish skill. Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bookish — index learned Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • bookish — 1560s, literary, from BOOK (Cf. book) (n.) + ISH (Cf. ish). In sense of overly studious it is recorded from 1590s …   Etymology dictionary

  • bookish — academic, scholastic, *pedantic …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • bookish — ► ADJECTIVE 1) devoted to reading and studying. 2) (of language) literary in style. DERIVATIVES bookishly adverb bookishness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • bookish — [book′ish] adj. 1. of or connected with books 2. inclined to read and study; literary; scholarly 3. having mere book learning 4. pedantic; stodgy bookishly adv. bookishness n …   English World dictionary

  • bookish — adjective /ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/ a) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books. From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. This… …   Wiktionary

  • bookish — book|ish [ˈbukıʃ] adj someone who is bookish is more interested in reading and studying than in sports or other activities ▪ a shy bookish man …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • bookish — adjective 1 someone who is bookish is more interested in reading and studying than in sports or other activities: Bill was the studious, bookish type 2 based on books rather than on practical experience …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • bookish — [[t]b ʊkɪʃ[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) Someone who is bookish spends a lot of time reading serious book. Syn: studious …   English dictionary

  • bookish — adjective Swann was always the bookish one in our group Syn: studious, scholarly, academic, intellectual, highbrow, erudite, learned, lettered, educated, well read, knowledgeable; cerebral, serious, earnest; pedantic …   Thesaurus of popular words

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