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Definition of Bookish
1. Adjective. Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading. "A quiet studious child"
Definition of Bookish
1. a. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
Definition of Bookish
1. Adjective. Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books. ¹
2. Adjective. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bookish
1. pertaining to books [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookish
Literary usage of Bookish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Rural School, Its Characteristics, Its Future and Its Problems by Harold Waldstein Foght (1910)
"Our School Work too Formal and bookish. — All our school work has been too formal
and bookish. We have all along relied too much on text-books to the ..."
2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"Dickens not a bookish Man—Character of his Talk—Dickens made to tell his Own
Story—Lord Russell on Dickens's Letters—No Self- conceit in Dickens—Letter to ..."
3. Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition: Including Practical Exercises in English by Adams Sherman Hill (1902)
"bookish OR LIVING WORDS? A young writer sometimes loads his compositions with
... bookish words, bad enough in themselves, become far worse when used by one ..."
4. A Monograph on Privately-illustrated Books: A Plea for Bibliomania by Daniel Melancthon Tredwell (1881)
"It is a cynical and mischievous little book.1 Its missiles of sarcasm are constantly
discharged at men with bookish cravings, and a whining and 1A criticism ..."
5. On the Study of Celtic Literature ; And, On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1883)
"that was not too bookish an expression to be used in rendering Homer, as I can
imagine Mr. Newman to have been a little in doubt whether his " responsively ..."
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