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bookish adjective [ ˈbʊkɪʃ ]

• (of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying.
• "a bookish, untidy boy"
Similar: studious, scholarly, academic, literary, intellectual, highbrow, erudite, learned, well read, widely read, educated, well educated, well informed, knowledgeable, cultured, accomplished, pedantic, pedagogical, donnish, bluestocking, cerebral, serious, earnest, thoughtful, impractical, ivory-towerish, brainy, egghead, lettered, clerkly,
Opposite: lowbrow,


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