Crossword clues for bookish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookish \Book"ish\, a.
Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. ``A bookish man.''
--Addison. ``Bookish skill.''
--Bp. Hall.Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. [1913 Webster] -- Book"ish*ly, adv. -- Book"ish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "literary," from book (n.) + -ish. In sense of "overly studious" it is recorded from 1590s. Related: Bookishly; bookishness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books. 2 characterize by a method of expression generally found in books.
WordNet
adj. characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child" [syn: studious]
Wikipedia
Bookish.com is a content discovery and ecommerce website devoted to books which launched in February 2013. The site allows users to browse an extensive database of books and authors, add books to user-created digital "shelves", get custom book recommendations, read editorial content and purchase physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks.
Usage examples of "bookish".
She is a heroine out of a Barbara Pym novel: bookish, dependable, magnanimously stubborn, and no doubt beneath it all profoundly disappointed.
Balak had been a good father, wise enough not to push his bookish son into a military life.
And it apparently appealed to him, for this one saucer contains evidence of many bookish nights.
In any event, Willis Baxter, while at some times a bit of a Milquetoast and at others something of a bookish boob, lived in the modern day and age and was not a hypocrite.
The Absentminded Bumbling Bookish Boob a Bit Too Frequent in His Use of the Sauce.
So, although he may yet be a bit of a bumbler, something of a bookish boob, a man given to a bit too much drinking, and still a klutz much top humanly prone to err, let us keep sight of the fact that he is learning something of the verities of Life-for he is, above all, a man of good intentions.
Here she was in a suburban shopping center, being so disgustingly human-and loving it because it was what that absentminded, alcoholic, bookish boob with chalk dust on his hands wanted of her.
New Testament that we have, we need to start at the very beginning with one of the unusual features of Christianity in the Greco-Roman world: its bookish character.
This was a bookish religion, with writings of all kinds proving to be of uppermost importance to almost every aspect of the faith.
As we saw in chapter 1, Christianity from the outset was a bookish religion that stressed certain texts as authoritative scripture.
The religion of the peasants was a long way from the bookish Christianity of the clergy.
I daresay I may never have warned you that although I am not bookish I have a tolerably good understanding!
The business of the Book Fair continued, and she maneuvered through it in a fog, words like print run, cover art, and mild bookish jokes, washing over her.
Born to lower-middle-class, not particularly bookish parents in 1948 in the smallish city of Lorain, Ohio, Dirda quickly fell in love with the printed word.
There were never any specifics or details, simply that the bookish, gentle Souter and his lifelong bachelorhood seemed to fit the stereotype.