Bookish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bookish
       adj : characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a
             bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a
             quiet studious child" [syn: {studious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "bookish":
     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