BOOKISH Synonyms

• marked by care and effort

• characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading

• associated with academia or an academy

• an educator who works at a college or university

• hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result

• marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

• a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

• someone who spends a great deal of time reading

• having or showing profound knowledge

• appealing to or using the intellect

• involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

• a person who uses the mind creatively

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

• established by conditioning or learning

• having or showing profound knowledge

• highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• characteristic of scholars or scholarship

• well informed or deeply versed through reading

• highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

• (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

• a lavish dance requiring formal attire

• a gown for evening wear

• characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• logically deductive

• refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

• lacking natural ease

• requiring or showing effort

• of or relating to or characteristic of literature

• knowledgeable about literature

• appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing