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Synonyms & Antonyms of donnish
as in nerdy, bookish
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for donnish
- bookish,
- geeky,
- nerdish,
- nerdy,
- pedagogical
- (also pedagogic),
- pedantic,
- professorial,
- tweedy
- academic
- (also academical),
- educational,
- intellectual,
- scholarly,
- scholastic
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The first known use of donnish was in 1848
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