3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: donnish \donnish\ adj. like a university don; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning, especially its trivial aspects. Syn: academic, pedantic, bookish. [WordNet 1.5] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: donnish adj : marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects [syn: {academic}, {pedantic}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 39 Moby Thesaurus words for "donnish": academic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, bookish, booky, devoted to studies, diligent, dryasdust, inkhorn, literary, mandarin, owlish, pedagogic, pedantic, preceptorial, professorial, professorlike, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, studious, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tutorial
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