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Bookish

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result.

    "From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. […] This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession."

  2. 2
    Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.

    "Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading wordnet

Etymology

From book + -ish.

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