Another shortcoming of After You're Out is a lack of the emotion-invoking personality that was so evident in Out Of The Closets […] most of the essays seem cold and clinical. In this respect, After You're Out seems textbookish.
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Textbookish
Synonyms for "textbookish" (18 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Noun(2 words)
ap biology textbookbiology course book
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (5)
Adjective(5 words)
Related words (9)
Adjective(6 words)
Noun(3 words)
math bookorganic chemistry textbooktextbook excerpt
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3 entrieslinguistic propertynormative descriptorvisual design term
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8 entriescanonical instructiondiagrammatic layoutdry proseexpository proseinstructional stylepedantic dictionsectioned designstandard procedure
Collocations
6 entriestextbookish descriptiontextbookish languagetextbookish prosetextbookish styletextbookish tonetextbookish writing
Inflections
2 entriesmore textbookishmost textbookish
Derivations
2 entriesSample sentences
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