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Definition of bookish in English: bookishadjective ˈbʊkɪʃˈbʊkɪʃ 1(of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying. 喜欢读书的，好学习的 the war proved the deepest trauma of a largely bookish life Example sentencesExamples - As a shy, bookish child, I felt very much an outsider when I was growing up, and the discovery of our secret Romany past was the key which unlocked a mass of possible explanations.
- Annalise whose zest for life and whose loud raucous ways had been both shocking and enticing to the bookish Emily.
- In this sanctuary he is to be found, his punishing day's tally of work completed, sitting content, smoking endless pipes and gossiping with bookish friends the moon down the sky.
- She is brilliantly but mordantly characterised by her bookish son.
- Jenny was bookish; the only young man capable to follow her train of thought was Michael - with whom Jenny often engaged in heated debates about philosophy and boring books.
- Not surprisingly, given this background, the stories nearly all involve bookish men; old churches, libraries and cathedrals feature heavily.
- She was not a bookish person, but she loved to read as well as do things like fishing and gardening; she also loved doing things with me.
- I was a bookish kid, largely because of coordination problems that didn't really get sorted out until 1987-8.
- A highly sensitive and bookish boy, he felt he had largely educated himself by his reading in great authors.
- I wanted to be admired by pretty, bookish women.
- They were readers of newspapers and periodicals, they were eternal students in the best sense, they were bookish people.
- My parents have always been bookish people and obviously my father went to Cambridge and I grew up feeling that I must do the same.
- Almost six in ten women think men who read books are more interesting and intelligent while almost half think bookish blokes are more sensitive.
- By the 1941 Christmas season, the bookish technician got wind of an outlandish project to determine if ethnicity was a factor in the flying business.
- It sounded like the daydream of a lonely and bookish boy.
- I thought, when I first opened the package, that I was going to have to write a carefully worded piece saying only that, if you're looking for a Christmas present for a bookish friend, this might do.
- She's bookish, bespectacled, redheaded, and stubborn!
- Almost all the topics of conversation were foreign to me, but then I came from a bookish family and was studying philosophy, French, and classics at university.
- Soon these two bookish characters fall in love.
- But to concentrate on the theory means that you are bookish, weedy, un-masculine and alien.
Synonyms studious, scholarly, academic, literary, intellectual, highbrow, erudite, learned, well read, widely read, educated, well educated, well informed, knowledgeable, cultured, accomplished pedantic, pedagogical, donnish, bluestocking, cerebral, serious, earnest, thoughtful impractical, ivory-towerish informal brainy, egghead dated lettered archaic clerkly - 1.1 (of language or writing) literary in style or allusion.
书面语的；咬文嚼字的 his Welsh was rather bookish Example sentencesExamples - Having successfully dodged active service, he spent most of the war in Berkshire, writing radio talks for the BBC and bookish articles for the Statesman.
- Sealed in their Gaelic oral tradition, the Highlanders themselves had little need of a bookish literature, but two great writers were to make them a topic of universal human interest.
- It's movie dialogue, to be sure - no one, especially the sort of low-life characters they tend to write, speaks with such mellifluous, bookish vocabulary.
- They employ scientific, or philosophical, or literary, or bookish terms that go over their congregations' heads.
- For such speakers, Latin had always been a strange, alien, and bookish tongue.
- Because of a tradition of teaching English formally through grammar, translation, and literature, spoken usage is often stilted and bookish.
- Even the most bookish work that seems esoteric on the written page can be transformed by actors into the cadences of characters and themes.
- I have recently realized that sometimes my writing is too bookish and sometimes it isn't bookish enough, all depending on who happens to be reading it.
- Sayid does use a lot of bookish language.
- Actually, I find the candidates a bit adorably nerdy when they lapse into this kind of bookish vocabulary.
- Nothing seems to me so inane as bookish language in conversation.
- I dont see anything wrong with writing bookish English, though it lacks a tad of fluency, its certainly elegant and exquisite.
Derivativesadverb Now and then, it's nice to think that they will go for something a little less formal and bookishly precise. Example sentencesExamples - Lorenzo is a bookishly handsome, well-dressed professional with style, grace, and sex appeal.
- I think I must have been a bit too obvious with my slackjawed staring, because soon, the bookishly handsome professor was staring straight back out at me, with a look of bemusement.
- His parents were, their son wrote, ‘both fond of reading’; so they resolved to give bookishly inclined John a good education.
- Giving me exposure, a whole new perspective, equipped me for life, changed my value system, made me look at life realistically, not bookishly.
noun ˈbʊkɪʃnəsˈbʊkɪʃnəs Why should indulging in bookishness be regarded as peculiar, anyway? Example sentencesExamples - My awkward bookishness could be overcome in that environment through being rather regularly and publicly recognised for achievements in creative writing, drama, public speaking and debating.
- There is no help and no escape for any of us in a story that can't escape its own bookishness.
- There are people whose bookishness is a substitute for, rather than a stimulus to their own thinking.
- It came as a result of the combination of your bookishness, fertile imagination and love for typography.
- He was an oddball child, his bookishness and poetry out of step with his surroundings on the prairie earth.
Definition of bookish in US English: bookishadjectiveˈbʊkɪʃˈbo͝okiSH 1(of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying rather than worldly interests. 喜欢读书的，好学习的 by comparison I was very bookish, intellectual, and wordy in a wrong way Example sentencesExamples - They were readers of newspapers and periodicals, they were eternal students in the best sense, they were bookish people.
- My parents have always been bookish people and obviously my father went to Cambridge and I grew up feeling that I must do the same.
- A highly sensitive and bookish boy, he felt he had largely educated himself by his reading in great authors.
- In this sanctuary he is to be found, his punishing day's tally of work completed, sitting content, smoking endless pipes and gossiping with bookish friends the moon down the sky.
- By the 1941 Christmas season, the bookish technician got wind of an outlandish project to determine if ethnicity was a factor in the flying business.
- She was not a bookish person, but she loved to read as well as do things like fishing and gardening; she also loved doing things with me.
- Annalise whose zest for life and whose loud raucous ways had been both shocking and enticing to the bookish Emily.
- Soon these two bookish characters fall in love.
- Jenny was bookish; the only young man capable to follow her train of thought was Michael - with whom Jenny often engaged in heated debates about philosophy and boring books.
- As a shy, bookish child, I felt very much an outsider when I was growing up, and the discovery of our secret Romany past was the key which unlocked a mass of possible explanations.
- It sounded like the daydream of a lonely and bookish boy.
- She's bookish, bespectacled, redheaded, and stubborn!
- Almost all the topics of conversation were foreign to me, but then I came from a bookish family and was studying philosophy, French, and classics at university.
- Not surprisingly, given this background, the stories nearly all involve bookish men; old churches, libraries and cathedrals feature heavily.
- I thought, when I first opened the package, that I was going to have to write a carefully worded piece saying only that, if you're looking for a Christmas present for a bookish friend, this might do.
- I wanted to be admired by pretty, bookish women.
- Almost six in ten women think men who read books are more interesting and intelligent while almost half think bookish blokes are more sensitive.
- I was a bookish kid, largely because of coordination problems that didn't really get sorted out until 1987-8.
- She is brilliantly but mordantly characterised by her bookish son.
- But to concentrate on the theory means that you are bookish, weedy, un-masculine and alien.
Synonyms studious, scholarly, academic, literary, intellectual, highbrow, erudite, learned, well read, widely read, educated, well educated, well informed, knowledgeable, cultured, accomplished - 1.1 (of language or writing) literary in style or allusion.
书面语的；咬文嚼字的 a bookish but eloquent erotic memoir Example sentencesExamples - For such speakers, Latin had always been a strange, alien, and bookish tongue.
- Having successfully dodged active service, he spent most of the war in Berkshire, writing radio talks for the BBC and bookish articles for the Statesman.
- Actually, I find the candidates a bit adorably nerdy when they lapse into this kind of bookish vocabulary.
- They employ scientific, or philosophical, or literary, or bookish terms that go over their congregations' heads.
- Because of a tradition of teaching English formally through grammar, translation, and literature, spoken usage is often stilted and bookish.
- Even the most bookish work that seems esoteric on the written page can be transformed by actors into the cadences of characters and themes.
- It's movie dialogue, to be sure - no one, especially the sort of low-life characters they tend to write, speaks with such mellifluous, bookish vocabulary.
- Nothing seems to me so inane as bookish language in conversation.
- Sealed in their Gaelic oral tradition, the Highlanders themselves had little need of a bookish literature, but two great writers were to make them a topic of universal human interest.
- I have recently realized that sometimes my writing is too bookish and sometimes it isn't bookish enough, all depending on who happens to be reading it.
- Sayid does use a lot of bookish language.
- I dont see anything wrong with writing bookish English, though it lacks a tad of fluency, its certainly elegant and exquisite.
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