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Word | Bookish |
Italian Meaning | libresco, studioso, letterario, amante dei libri, amante della lettura |
characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket; a quiet studious child / characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading / Given to reading / the principal container port of London and southeastern England, on the northern bank of the Thames River. / more interested in reading books and studying than doing more physical activities (such as sports), | |
Usage | ⇒ Their teacher was a bookish fellow. ⇒ As he climbed into his tilbury some twenty yards away, Isolde shrugged. |
Synonyms | academic, scholarly, learned, studious, literary, erudite, pedantic, scholastic, intellectual, donnish, highbrow, inkhorn, pedantical, cultured, educated, blue, book-learned, brainy, cultivated, professorial, |
Antonyms | unscholarly, chatty, colloquial, conversational, ignorant, informal, nonliterary, stupid, unbookish, dishy, familiar, gossipy, illiterate, newsy, nonformal, slangy, unliterary, unschooled, vernacular, vulgar, |
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