Notebookish

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1
Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
"In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish."

Example

"In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish."

Etymology

From notebook + -ish.

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