Definition of Bookish. Meaning of Bookish. Synonyms of Bookish

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Definition of Bookish

Bookish
Bookish Book"ish, a. 1. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. ``A bookish man.' --Addison. ``Bookish skill.' --Bp. Hall. 2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. -- Book"ish*ly, adv. -- Book"ish*ness, n.

Meaning of Bookish from wikipedia

- Bookish is an upcoming British crime drama television series from Mark Gatiss. It was renewed for a second series prior to the broadcast of the first...
- Bookish.com is a content discovery and ecommerce website, which launched in February 2013, devoted to books. The site allows users to browse an extensive...
- Leo Chadburn, known profesionally as Simon Bookish, a British musician and composer known for his work in experimental, electronic, pop, and classical...
- also generally follow a set of formats, often drawing upon the wider "bookish" culture and lexicon. There is a distinct set of recognizable faces within...
- Coloman the Learned, also the Book-Lover or the Bookish (Hungarian: Könyves Kálmán; Croatian: Koloman; Slovak: Koloman Učený; c. 1070 – 3 February 1116)...
- Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval M****cripts to the Digital Age is a 2022 book by Dennis Duncan that examines the history of...
- overtones. A 1790 poem by St. George Tucker has a father upset with his bookish son say "I'd not give [a ****] for all you've read". Originally printed...
- character from the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles ****ens. Brownlow is a bookish and kindly middle-aged bachelor who helps Oliver escape the clutches of...
- It is the tale of a young Gr**** intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba. The novel...
- “Come Along A Me” and "A Miss from Diss". The Guardian dubbed him a "bookishly melancholy folk-satirist". Born in Walshaw, near Bury, Lancashire, the...