bookish

CEFRC1

/ˈbʊkɪʃ/

noun · adjective

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In plain English

01
noun
Very interested in reading and studying.
02
noun
Extra detail
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.

Examples

She's undergone a metamorphosis from a quiet, bookish girl to an outspoken feminist activist.
My teacher is too bookish.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result.

In context

A Google search reveals Gendrot has no great internet or social media footprint, but in any case, he says, the police recruiters did not delve into his background. He did change his round spectacles to look less “bookish”.
Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, […]

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A Google search reveals Gendrot has no great internet or social media footprint, but in any case, he says, the police recruiters did not delve into his background. He did change his round spectacles to look less “bookish”.
2020 September 3, Kim Willsher, “French reporter who joined police exposes racism and violence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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.
1783, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, page 16
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, […]
1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1
Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.
1996, Helen L. Harrison, Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-century French Comedy, page 50

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From book + -ish.