bookish
Origin of bookish
1Other words for bookish
Other words from bookish
- book·ish·ly, adverb
- book·ish·ness, noun
- non·book·ish, adjective
- non·book·ish·ly, adverb
- non·book·ish·ness, noun
- o·ver·book·ish, adjective
- o·ver·book·ish·ly, adverb
- o·ver·book·ish·ness, noun
- un·book·ish, adjective
- un·book·ish·ly, adverb
- un·book·ish·ness, noun
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How to use bookish in a sentence
BH: No, I think it refers to the novel being self-conscious about the bookishness of itself and its subject.
Historical Fiction: A Conversation Between Bruce Holsinger and Nancy Bilyeau | Nancy Bilyeau, Bruce Holsinger | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNever again will I take reading for granted; Sherman and Grafton made clear that bookishness is a behavior worth looking into.
But what I saw was people embracing and loving the bookishness of it.
But his well-knit body and clear eyes showed no marks of bookishness, and Italy had made him a swordsman.
The Path of the King | John BuchanAll the unreality and mere bookishness of M. Comte's knowledge of physical science comes out in the passage I have italicised.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews | Thomas Henry Huxley
It was a sad example of beauty sacrificed on the altar of bookishness.
The Silver Poppy | Arthur StringerBut that did not trouble me: I knew, I felt that I should be understood and that this very bookishness might be an assistance.
White Nights and Other Stories | Fyodor DostoevskyPerhaps it was the stimulus of mountain air, a bracing climate, that got him out of his habitual bookishness.
The Gilded Man | Clifford Smyth
British Dictionary definitions for bookish
/ (ˈbʊkɪʃ) /
fond of reading; studious
consisting of or forming opinions or attitudes through reading rather than direct personal experience; academic: a bookish view of life
of or relating to books: a bookish career in publishing
Derived forms of bookish
- bookishly, adverb
- bookishness, noun
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