| Bookish 1. (a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. 2. (a.) Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences. Thesaurus Entries academic, autodidactic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, booky, college-bred, collegiate, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, graduate, highbrow, inkhorn, learned, literary, mandarin, owlish, pedantic, postgraduate, professorial, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate |