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What is another word for
bookish
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Fond of reading or studying
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books
Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
Serious, thoughtful or earnest in appearance
Adjective
▲
Fond of reading or studying
erudite
intellectual
learned
academic
donnish
highbrow
pedantic
scholarly
studious
accomplished
cultured
educated
knowledgeable
bluestocking
brainy
cerebral
earnest
impractical
ivory-towerish
pedagogical
serious
thoughtful
clerkly
egghead
intelligent
labored
US
laboured
UK
lettered
scholastic
smart
swotty
well educated
well informed
well-informed
well read
well-read
widely read
literary
literate
cultivated
clever
enlightened
pedagogic
civilized
US
formal
civilised
UK
well-educated
wise
genius
schooled
versed
sapient
discerning
formalistic
illuminated
sophisticated
sharp
sagacious
sage
scientific
didactic
schoolish
doctrinaire
abstruse
bright
inkhorn
informed
brilliant
trained
well versed
book-loving
tutored
professorial
taught
pompous
ostentatious
stilted
punctilious
arid
egotistic
fussy
priggish
hairsplitting
sententious
overnice
dry
particular
nit-picking
dull
educational
pedantical
esoteric
precise
switched-on
intellectualist
intellectualistic
keen
coached
highbrowed
classical
belletristic
bookly
academical
alert
eggheaded
geeky
intellective
perceptive
conversant
polymath
studied
longhair
gifted
instructed
exceptional
nerdish
blue
nerdy
in the know
insightful
fast
supersmart
rational
ultrasmart
well-versed
hyperintelligent
deep
quick-witted
sensible
knowing
well-taught
eager
bookworm
sussed
pointy-headed
assiduous
well schooled
aware
schoolmasterly
long-haired
book-learned
with great knowledge
psychologic
recondite
well versed in
creative
precocious
expert
skilled
inventive
percipient
competent
logical
genial
prudent
heady
perspicacious
astute
solid
philosophical
grounded
posted
philosophic
well-rounded
judicious
well-grounded
omniscient
sound
solemn
grave
pansophic
quick
very smart
polished
experienced
savvy
school
discriminating
nurtured
into
professional
formed
fitted
developed
shaped
enriched
acquainted
corrected
prepared
finished
initiated
nimble
intellectually aware
wise up
college
collegiate
university
able
sharp-witted
whip-smart
book smart
familiar
au courant
abreast
up-to-date
au fait
up
clued-up
up to date
in the picture
plugged in
versant
on the ball
cognizant
canny
down
clued up
genned up
tuned in
no stranger to
up on
shrewd
good
at home
up to speed
in the loop
well up on
with it
understanding
proficient
plugged-in
conscious
seasoned
reasoned
urbane
knowledgeable about
hip
justified
well informed about
familiar with
refined
well-reasoned
well-founded
primed
genteel
abreast of
apprised
polite
well briefed
apprised of
in touch
advanced
comprehending
filled in
plugged into
courteous
couth
au courant with
at home with
clued up on
used to
cognizant of
experienced in
in on
wise to
hip to
mannerly
reasonable
levelheaded
coherent
well-bred
sober
well reasoned
profound
valid
commonsensical
well thought out
just
well-advised
commonsense
appreciative
firm
briefed
commonsensible
practised
UK
acute
cunning
great
practical
ingenious
across
qualified
slick
up with
practiced
US
observant
apprized
sentient
abreast of the facts
together
wily
calculating
accustomed
alive
capable
responsible
kept posted
clued in
all there
skilled in
proficient in
up to speed on
informed about
up to date on
genned up on
au fait with
switched on
all-knowing
in the know about
at ease with
all-seeing
acquainted with
versed in
with-it
tuned-in
politic
deliberated
intuitive
well-briefed
strategic
tactful
cogitative
contemplative
desirable
argute
foresighted
tactical
careful
elegant
well judged
well advised
full of insight
tasteful
sensitive
crafty
artistic
prescient
gallant
liberal
witting
chivalrous
artful
in
apprehensive
privy
streetwise
tolerant
esthetic
US
having your finger on the pulse
savant
distingue
traveled
US
arty
foxy
aesthetic
UK
travelled
UK
hep to
on to
turned on
with an understanding of
with a knowledge of
know one's stuff
leet
hep
practised in
perfect in
on the beam
down with
realistic
plugged in to
clued in on
part of the circle
cognizant in
familiarized
US
in the circle
advised
knowing the score
knowing what's what
familiarised
UK
pragmatic
geared up
high-class
sane
artistically aware
street-smart
cluey
blue-stocking
balanced
with good taste
confident
well-acquainted
sure
circumspect
hard
analytical
mature
on top of things
in control
competent at
conversant with
confident with
analytic
gracious
introduced
well up in
mindful
discreet
farsighted
cosmopolitan
consequent
well-thought-out
down-to-earth
level-headed
matter-of-fact
full of common sense
no-nonsense
having all one's marbles
steady-going
in one's right mind
serious-minded
veteran
worldly
crack
ace
virtuoso
complete
skilful
UK
master
consummate
skillful
US
crackerjack
compleat
professed
masterful
masterly
adept
infinite
unprovincial
stellar
tasty
penetrating
well mannered
preeminent
all-wise
pansophical
almighty
dynamite
well versed
hot
top-notch
top-shelf
clear-sighted
having been around
clear-eyed
worldly-wise
apt
thinking
well up
resourceful
reliable
enlightened about
aware of
talented
capable of learning
imaginative
having a good head on one's shoulders
know how many beans make five
having no flies on
witty
quick on the uptake
ready
original
whiz
clued up about
current
genned up about
switched on to
up-to-the-minute
au parfum
congruent
showing great knowledge
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“It's these same
bookish
types who tend to get in a bit of a flap when images or ideas from literature are appropriated by more popular media.”
Adjective
▲
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books
literary
poetic
formal
dramatic
ornate
written
elaborate
flowery
purple
laboured
UK
labored
US
dignified
solemn
grandiloquent
rhetorical
bombastic
magniloquent
orotund
pompous
pretentious
fustian
turgid
florid
overblown
overripe
highfalutin
oratorical
lofty
verbose
aureate
euphuistic
high-flown
high-sounding
eloquent
windy
extravagant
declamatory
tumid
inflated
linguistic
stylistic
theatrical
stagy
elocutionary
verbal
sonorous
Ciceronian
grandiose
gaseous
flatulent
rhetoric
gassy
epideictic
Demosthenic
silver-tongued
Demosthenean
persuasive
forceful
expressive
intoning
gesturing
ostentatious
important
noble
long-winded
fervid
vivid
gesticulative
senatorial
loud
imposing
stentorian
impassioned
noisy
histrionic
published
printed
artistic
in print
overwrought
overdone
affected
Ossianic
bold
overinflated
discursive
stuffy
arresting
fluent
booming
melodramatic
“Actually, I find the candidates a bit adorably nerdy when they lapse into this kind of
bookish
vocabulary.”
Adjective
▲
Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
didactic
instructive
enlightening
instructional
educational
informative
informational
moralistic
educative
edifying
moralising
UK
moralizing
US
illuminating
academic
sententious
preachy
homiletic
expository
pedagogic
sermonic
scholastic
homiletical
pedantic
doctrinal
preceptive
priggish
pompous
improving
heuristic
tuitional
donnish
propaedeutic
erudite
teaching
advisory
formal
schoolmasterly
sermonising
UK
sermonizing
US
abstruse
moral
exhortative
hortative
schoolmasterist
teacherish
teacherly
teachy
informatory
explanatory
elucidative
pedagogical
illuminative
helpful
pedantical
revealing
expositive
learned
literary
useful
explicative
schoolish
doctrinaire
explicatory
inkhorn
scholarly
descriptive
explanative
exegetic
illustrative
interpretive
interpretative
tutorial
exegetical
stilted
punctilious
arid
egotistic
fussy
formalistic
hairsplitting
overnice
dry
ostentatious
particular
nit-picking
dull
sanctimonious
self-righteous
pietistic
dogmatic
pontifical
pious
telling
disquisitional
elucidatory
revelatory
guiding
unco guid
explaining
demonstrative
graphic
diagrammatic
allegorical
clarifying
hermeneutical
lecturelike
sermonical
didactical
admonitory
disciplinary
preaching
cultural
smug
trite
profound
coaching
cautionary
communicative
serious
upright
strait-laced
high-minded
holier-than-thou
canting
newsy
factual
preachifying
ponderous
judgmental
judgemental
Pecksniffian
Pharisaic
Pharisaical
forthcoming
self-important
pi
intellectual
pointed
expositional
highbrow
cerebral
exemplifying
prefatory
annotative
expounding
representative
typical
evaluative
describing
discursive
informing
pictorial
illustrational
evincive
delineative
hermeneutic
declarative
by way of explanation
analytical
egghead
comparative
illustratory
pictoric
symbolic
specifying
indicative
emblematic
corroborative
sample
expressive
metaphoric
imagistic
iconographic
figurative
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Serious, thoughtful or earnest in appearance
solemn
moody
earnest
serious
severe
intense
sober
sobersided
staid
unsmiling
humorless
US
humourless
UK
sedate
uncomic
blank
deadpan
expressionless
grave
impassive
owlish
studious
poker-faced
straight-faced
no-nonsense
stony-faced
po-faced
glum
pensive
austere
somber
US
contemplative
stern
sullen
cheerless
dour
downbeat
funereal
composed
subdued
unhumorous
resolved
thoughtful
sombre
UK
resolute
introspective
reflective
long-faced
joyless
ruminative
grim
bound and determined
deep in thought
quiet
unplayful
weighty
serious-minded
businesslike
strict
mournful
dull
sad
grim-faced
dry
dismal
straight
boring
tedious
sour
rigid
hard
unamusing
saturnine
disapproving
leaden
gloomy
sage
dignified
ponderous
muted
forbidding
stolid
cold sober
heavy-going
strictly business
stone-faced
uncomical
stiff
pokerfaced
dreary
douce
puritanical
melancholy
sorrowful
withdrawn
blue
empty
vacant
inexpressive
wooden
inscrutable
unexpressive
stony
dispassionate
catatonic
vacuous
numb
unresponsive
glazed
lifeless
fixed
nobody home
unreadable
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