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bookish
bookish
adjective
Definition of BOOKISH
suggestive of the vocabulary used in books <“fealty” is a bookish synonym for “loyalty”>
Related Words academic (also academical), donnish, inkhorn, pedantic, scholastic; belletristic (also belle-lettristic); highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual; educated, schooled; elevated, eloquent, formal, high-flown, lofty, majestic, stately, towering; bombastic, declamatory, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin), pompous, stilted
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