Definitions
characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading
Word origin
From book + -ish.
Used in a sentence
“Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, […]”
“Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.”
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