'Bookish' definitions:
Definition of 'bookish'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child" [syn: bookish, studious]
Definition of 'Bookish'
From: GCIDE
- 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; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. [1913 Webster] -- {Book"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Book"ish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bookish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- academic,
- autodidactic,
- bibliophagic,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- booky,
- college-bred,
- collegiate,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- graduate,
- highbrow,
- inkhorn,
- learned,
- literary,
- mandarin,
- owlish,
- pedantic,
- postgraduate,
- professorial,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolboyish,
- schoolgirlish,
- sophomoric,
- studentlike,
- studious,
- undergraduate