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adjective
- 1. (of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying: "a bookish, untidy boy"
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Bookish means of or relating to books, fond of reading, or literary and formal. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and usage of bookish from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Bookish means enjoying books, especially serious ones. Learn more about this adjective, its synonyms and how to use it in sentences from the Cambridge Dictionary.
fond of reading; studious. consisting of or forming opinions or attitudes through reading rather than direct personal experience; academic. a bookish view of life. of or relating to books. a bookish career in publishing.
Bookish means enjoying books, especially serious books, or having a studious or intellectual appearance. Learn more about the word, its usage, and related terms from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Bookish means someone who spends a lot of time reading serious books, or someone who has opinions or attitudes based on reading rather than experience. Learn more about the word origin, usage, and related terms from Collins Dictionary.
Someone bookish likes books a lot. They're either studious or always seem to be reading. Some people don't like studying. Others like studying a lot: it seems like their head is always in a book. Someone like that can be called bookish, because they are reading books all the time.
Bookish means interested in reading and studying, rather than in more active or practical things. Learn how to use this adjective with pictures, pronunciation and usage notes from Oxford University Press.
