Australian English Meaning of bookish
bookish
Other Australian English words related to bookish
Nearest Words of bookish
- booking office => Booking office
- booking clerk => booking clerk
- booking agent => booking agent
- booking => booking
- bookie => bookmaker
- bookholder => bookstand
- bookful => bookworm
- bookfair => Book fair
- booker taliaferro washington => Booker Taliaferro Washington
- booker t. washington => Booker T. Washington
Definitions and Meaning of bookish in English
bookish (s)
characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading
bookish (a.)
Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.
FAQs About the word bookish
bookish
characterized by diligent study and fondness for readingGiven to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books., Charac
literary,academic,Erudite,intellectual,learned,academic,literary,literary,bombastic,donnish
chatty,colloquial,conversational,familiar,informal,non-literary,unbookish,illiterate,slangy
booking office => Booking office, booking clerk => booking clerk, booking agent => booking agent, booking => booking, bookie => bookmaker,