My teacher is too bookish.
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Bookish
Synonyms for "bookish" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Adjective(7 words)
Noun(2 words)
academic phrasebook learning
Strong matches (23)
Verb(1 words)
Related words (38)
Noun(11 words)
literary achievementliterary adjectiveliterary deviceliterary elementliterary fieldliterary societyliterary styleliterary usageliterary workmost antiquarianscholarly world
Adjective(12 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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9 entriesadjectivedescriptorlinguistic registerlinguistic stylepersonality traitqualitystyletemperamentwriting style
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8 entriesacademic dictionarchaic dictionbibliophilicbibliophilousformal proseintellectualnerdyscholarly prose
Collocations
5 entriesbookish attitudebookish culturebookish prosebookish tonebookish vocabulary
Inflections
2 entriesmore bookishmost bookish
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1 entriesSample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"Dennis, I'd rather refer to Kanji as logograms or sinograms." "I think those words are too bookish, Marko." "You may be correct."
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She's undergone a metamorphosis from a quiet, bookish girl to an outspoken feminist activist.
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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.
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