Bookish
['bʊkɪʃ]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; 'a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket'; 'a quiet studious child' .
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Definition
(a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
(a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Given to reading, fond of books, fond of study, very studious.
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Examples
- Between him and another bookish boy, John Collins, arose an argument in reference to the education of women. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins by name, with whom I was intimately acquainted. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead--abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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