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Definition of donnish in English: donnishadjective ˈdɒnɪʃˈdɑnɪʃ British Resembling a college don, particularly because of having a pedantic, scholarly manner. 大学教师式的；学究式的 Example sentencesExamples - They would have made a donnish joke of it perhaps, but their critical teeth would have been bared.
- In donnish inquisitions he would challenge every utterance to expose lazy thinking.
- If he has forced ministers to mull over some harsh truths, we should forgive him the odd donnish flourish.
- The observations above suggest that, whilst he may have been correct in writing about a decline in donnish dominion in the universities, he was over-hasty in proclaiming an end to that dominion.
- Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
- He has been called donnish and an original thinker.
- By a donnish performance, more in the style of a school of philosophy than of an economics department, he proved the case for tax cuts, then forged an intellectual alibi for funking its implementation.
- His donnish concerns and highly specific milieu make him less ‘contemporary and accessible’ than his Anglophilic, Masterpiece Theaterish, young fogey fans might think.
- He has an infectious, donnish enthusiasm and joie de vivre that television producers obviously believe lends popular appeal to subjects that some viewers might otherwise consider dry as dust.
- Face to face, he seems donnish, gentle, almost languid, but perhaps he is just tired.
- At the time, this was treated as a donnish joke by many critics who conceived Wodehousian humour, in spite of its popularity, to be elitist, since it dealt with the goings-on of a wealthy and privileged few.
- They should really check out the donnish chap, who's in tailored jeans and a linen jacket.
- I see myself at high table, passing the port as donnish jokes were tossed about.
- The community was quietist, contemplative in spirit, and rather donnish, with Augustine as acknowledged leader providing answers to questions raised in the discussions.
- Perhaps, though, under the donnish joking they won't notice a great deal of subtlety.
- His self-described life of writing, reading and lecturing resembles that of a donnish Edwardian vicar; a less modern, less stressful existence can scarcely be imagined.
- He, after a lifetime in office, might be forgiven for expecting to have his advice taken seriously by a donnish, ineffectual Scottish peer who was chiefly known for the shapeliness of his legs and his patronage of botanists.
- That said, the emphasis on being trendy attracts a clientele which is far less donnish than the norm for an up-market Oxford restaurant.
- True individualism among academics, to say nothing of donnish eccentricity, is but a memory.
- Indeed, his donnish uniform - blue cords, woolly jumper - would point to a different set of opinions but, as he says, this war is unusual.
Synonyms scholarly, studious, academic, scholastic, bookish, book-loving, intellectual, erudite, educated, learned, serious, earnest, thoughtful, cerebral, highbrow pedantic impractical, ivory-towerish informal brainy, egghead British informal swotty dated lettered archaic clerkly
Derivativesadverb British Later in this highly allusive lyric, he goes on to explain donnishly. Example sentencesExamples - They seem an unlikely couple, perhaps: she, a petite, girlish 53, with a curtain of dark, waist-length hair; he, donnishly crumpled with a shock of white hair.
- When we meet, he is wearing a buttoned up suit and one of the designer's trademark floral shirts, all the while keeping his scarf tied donnishly around his neck.
- The don turns to the others and says, donnishly, ‘Information Theory would inform a mechanical calculator in much the same way as, say, fluid dynamics would inform the hull of a ship.’
- All of that provides a rich portrait of an Australia largely remembered as a thing of the past, a family embarrassment dripping with fragile beauties, but then there is the commentary, which is half camp and half donnishly superior.
noun British Whatever middle-class donnishness I inherited quickly withered as I became involved in left-wing student and anti-racist politics. Example sentencesExamples - His style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism.
- I was slightly bemused by his Oxford donnishness, a role assiduously cultivated.
- The donnishness at least is not illusory: he lectures in forensic medicine at the University of Turin.
- In many ways it seems to hark back to a bygone age, with its wine, cigars and unashamed donnishness.
Definition of donnish in US English: donnishadjectiveˈdɑnɪʃˈdäniSH British Thought to resemble or suit a college don, particularly because of a pedantic, scholarly manner. 大学教师式的；学究式的 Example sentencesExamples - True individualism among academics, to say nothing of donnish eccentricity, is but a memory.
- I see myself at high table, passing the port as donnish jokes were tossed about.
- They should really check out the donnish chap, who's in tailored jeans and a linen jacket.
- His self-described life of writing, reading and lecturing resembles that of a donnish Edwardian vicar; a less modern, less stressful existence can scarcely be imagined.
- At the time, this was treated as a donnish joke by many critics who conceived Wodehousian humour, in spite of its popularity, to be elitist, since it dealt with the goings-on of a wealthy and privileged few.
- His donnish concerns and highly specific milieu make him less ‘contemporary and accessible’ than his Anglophilic, Masterpiece Theaterish, young fogey fans might think.
- He, after a lifetime in office, might be forgiven for expecting to have his advice taken seriously by a donnish, ineffectual Scottish peer who was chiefly known for the shapeliness of his legs and his patronage of botanists.
- If he has forced ministers to mull over some harsh truths, we should forgive him the odd donnish flourish.
- That said, the emphasis on being trendy attracts a clientele which is far less donnish than the norm for an up-market Oxford restaurant.
- He has been called donnish and an original thinker.
- The observations above suggest that, whilst he may have been correct in writing about a decline in donnish dominion in the universities, he was over-hasty in proclaiming an end to that dominion.
- He has an infectious, donnish enthusiasm and joie de vivre that television producers obviously believe lends popular appeal to subjects that some viewers might otherwise consider dry as dust.
- Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
- Indeed, his donnish uniform - blue cords, woolly jumper - would point to a different set of opinions but, as he says, this war is unusual.
- In donnish inquisitions he would challenge every utterance to expose lazy thinking.
- They would have made a donnish joke of it perhaps, but their critical teeth would have been bared.
- Perhaps, though, under the donnish joking they won't notice a great deal of subtlety.
- Face to face, he seems donnish, gentle, almost languid, but perhaps he is just tired.
- The community was quietist, contemplative in spirit, and rather donnish, with Augustine as acknowledged leader providing answers to questions raised in the discussions.
- By a donnish performance, more in the style of a school of philosophy than of an economics department, he proved the case for tax cuts, then forged an intellectual alibi for funking its implementation.
Synonyms scholarly, studious, academic, scholastic, bookish, book-loving, intellectual, erudite, educated, learned, serious, earnest, thoughtful, cerebral, highbrow
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