Entry Word: bookish

Function: adjective

Meaning: suggestive of the vocabulary used in books <fealty is a bookish synonym for loyalty>

Synonyms erudite, learned, literary

Related Words academic, pedantic, scholastic; highbrow, intellectual; educated, schooled; formal

Near Antonyms chatty, conversational; familiar, informal; slangy

Antonyms colloquial, nonliterary