Bookish Synonyms

bo͝okĭsh
Devoted to study or reading
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. studious
  2. scholarly
  3. autodidactic
Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. academic
  2. pedantic
  3. learned
  4. scholarly
  5. erudite
  6. scholastic
  7. donnish
  8. formalistic
  9. educated
  10. inkhorn
  11. formal
  12. literary
  13. highbrow
  14. knowing
  15. learning
  16. pedantical
  17. book-learned
  18. lettered
  19. studious
  20. thoughtful
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. literati
  2. scholar

Words Related to Bookish

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Bookish Sentence Examples

  • A bookish man with glasses, wearing a white lab coat, opened the door to the small house.

  • Belle, star of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, is a bookish yet beautiful girl who agrees to live in the Beast's castle in exchange for the promise of her father's safety.

  • The women on the first season of Momma's Boys ranged from Penthouse Pets to bookish librarian types.

  • It is with Aristotle that the bookish tradition begins to dominate the evolution of logic. The technical perfection of the analysis which he offers is, granted the circle of presuppositions within which it works, so decisive, that what precedes, even Plato's logic, is not unnaturally regarded as merely preliminary and subsidiary to it.

  • With the important exception of the Prince of Wales, the current royal family is not very bookish.

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