bookish

B2 Topic:Communication
US /ˈbʊkɪʃ/ UK /ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/
adj Freq #55846

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Very fond of reading and studying.

    She was a quiet, bookish child who spent every weekend at the library.

  2. 2
    adj

    Sounding formal or literary, as if taken from books rather than everyday speech.

    His writing felt stiff and bookish.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · very fond of reading and... studious
2 adj · sounding formal or... formalliterarypedantic
Word family
Derived forms bookishlybookishnessnonbookishoverbookishunbookish
Related forms comic-bookishnerd

Etymology

From book + -ish.

Topics

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