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Adjective

bookish (comparative more bookish, superlative most bookish)

Positive bookish

Comparative more bookish

Superlative most bookish
  1. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books.
    • 1783, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin‎, page 16
      From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. […] This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession.
  2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.
    • 1996, Helen L. Harrison, Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-century French Comedy‎, page 50
      Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.

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