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Schoolish
//ˈskuːlɪʃ// adj
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Adjective
- 1 Of or pertaining to school; scholastic.
"[...] it has studied the trend of the school, but not the trend of business, its leadership has been scholastic, not commercial. Today, commercial education finds itself of the school, schoolish, and not of the business house, business-like."
- 2 Characteristic of school rather than real life; pedantic, pedagogical, etc.
"Its structure, which could strike one as derived from an arithmetic or geometry lesson, is schoolish, as is its content..."
Etymology
From school + -ish. Compare Dutch schools (“scholastic, methodical”), German schulisch (“schoolish, scolastic”).
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