bookish
bookish
Definition
book·ish (bo̵ok′is̸h)
adjective
- of or connected with books
- inclined to read and study; literary; scholarly
- having mere book learning
- pedantic; stodgy
book′·ishly adverb
book′·ish·ness noun
bookish
Synonyms
bookish
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- type: Buckner pins some bookish types to said page with unnerving precision.
- boy: Simon Randall is a fifteen year old bookish young boy who recently lost his mother.
- nature: Girls were certainly drawn to him, especially those of a bookish nature with a love of the arts.
- journalist: Robert Birnbaum, a bookish journalist, was born in Germany, grew up in Chicago, lived for too many years in Boston.
- sort: Followed by clever sausage, the bespectacled bookish sort who loves his mother.
- interest: Presumably her boys had shown some bookish interests because they were all apprenticed to be booksellers in London.
Modifying Another Word
- very: With the important exception of the Prince of Wales, the current royal family is not very bookish.
Browse dictionary entries near bookish
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- bookie
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- booked
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- bookbinding
- bookbindery
- book value
- book transfer
- book-to-bill
- bookkeeper
- bookkeeping
- booklet
- bookmaker
- bookman
- bookmark
- bookmobile
- bookplate
- bookrack
- bookrest
