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scholarly, academic, erudite, book-learned; see learned 1, pedantic.
See bookish in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
Devoted to study or reading:
Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters:
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