Bookish [adjective]
Definition of Bookish:
scholarly
Synonyms of Bookish:
Sentence/Example of Bookish:
Technical words and bookish terms are not words of national use.
It all came back in cash to the working man; and yet it was my own pals who had rebuked me for being too bookish.
I envy you the acquaintance of a genuine non-bookish man like Captain Speke.
It was only geography that morning, any way: and the practical thing was worth any quantity of bookish theoric.
He seemingly was a bookish young man who would probably enjoy hunting a Greek verb to its lair.
There are authors who are the delight of a bookish few, and there are authors with an enormous public and no reputation.
All along elevator-row small groups of bookish-looking men returned from their day's work in the Apperception Centers.
He couldn't imagine the bookish and hermit-like Prissler skylarking with the fellows; the boy didn't—well, didn't just "fit."
Milton sets everywhere his little pitfalls of bookish association for the memory.
What had become of his dream of idylls, his gentle bookish romance?