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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/ [UK, US] Audio: en-au-bookish.ogg Forms: more bookish [comparative], most bookish [superlative]
Etymology: From book + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|book|ish}} book + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} bookish (comparative more bookish, superlative most bookish)
  1. Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result. Translations (given to reading; fond of study): книжовен (knižoven) (Bulgarian), boekenworm (Dutch), kirjallinen (Finnish), lukuintoinen (Finnish), kirjoihin uppoutuva (Finnish), bouquineur (French), rat de bibliothèque (French), μελετηρός (meletirós) [masculine] (Greek), könyvszerető (Hungarian), könyvkedvelő (Hungarian), olvasni/tanulni szerető (Hungarian), dużo czytający (Polish), кни́жный (knížnyj) (Russian), estudioso (Spanish), matado [Mexico] (Spanish), mateo [Chile, pejorative] (Spanish), empollón [Spain, pejorative] (Spanish), ביכערדיק (bikherdik) (Yiddish), אָנגעלייענט (ongeleyent) (Yiddish)
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  2. Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books. Synonyms (characterized by expression found in books): formal, labored, literary, pedantic Translations (characterized by a method of expression generally found in books): книжен (knižen) (Bulgarian), knižní (Czech), schools (Dutch), pedant (Dutch), formalistisch (Dutch), litterair (Dutch), eigengereid (Dutch), paperinen (Finnish), paperinmakuinen (Finnish), scolaire (French), pédant (French), formaliste (French), littéraire (French), cuistre (French), livresque (French), λόγιος (lógios) [masculine] (Greek), hivatalos (Hungarian), hivataloskodó (Hungarian), papírízű (Hungarian), könyvszagú (Hungarian), könyvszerű (Hungarian), tudálékos (Hungarian), 文語の (bungo no) (alt: ぶんごの) (Japanese), पुस्तकी (pustakī) (Marathi), książkowy (Polish), кни́жный (knížnyj) (Russian), literario (Spanish), pedante (Spanish), formalista (Spanish), libresco (Spanish), skriftspråklig (Swedish), litterär (Swedish), לומדיש (lomdish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-bookish-en-adj-EMr0TDjS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Yiddish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ish: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Yiddish translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'characterized by expression found in books': 16 84 Disambiguation of 'characterized by a method of expression generally found in books': 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bookishly, bookishness, nonbookish, overbookish, unbookish Related terms: comic-bookish, nerd
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          "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
          "word": "litterär"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 94",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "lomdish",
          "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
          "word": "לומדיש"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bookish.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b0/En-au-bookish.ogg/En-au-bookish.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/En-au-bookish.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bookish"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ish",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Marathi translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Yiddish translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bookishly"
    },
    {
      "word": "bookishness"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonbookish"
    },
    {
      "word": "overbookish"
    },
    {
      "word": "unbookish"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "book",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "book + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From book + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bookish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bookish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bookish (comparative more bookish, superlative most bookish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "comic-bookish"
    },
    {
      "word": "nerd"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1783, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, page 16:",
          "text": "From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. […] This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 3, Kim Willsher, “French reporter who joined police exposes racism and violence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "A Google search reveals Gendrot has no great internet or social media footprint, but in any case, he says, the police recruiters did not delve into his background. He did change his round spectacles to look less “bookish”.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reading",
          "reading"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:",
          "text": "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, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Helen L. Harrison, Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-century French Comedy, page 50:",
          "text": "Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Characterized",
          "characterize"
        ],
        [
          "expression",
          "expression"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bookish.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b0/En-au-bookish.ogg/En-au-bookish.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/En-au-bookish.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "characterized by expression found in books",
      "word": "formal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "characterized by expression found in books",
      "word": "labored"
    },
    {
      "sense": "characterized by expression found in books",
      "word": "literary"
    },
    {
      "sense": "characterized by expression found in books",
      "word": "pedantic"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "knižoven",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "книжовен"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "boekenworm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "kirjallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "lukuintoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "kirjoihin uppoutuva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "bouquineur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "rat de bibliothèque"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "meletirós",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "μελετηρός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "könyvszerető"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "könyvkedvelő"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "olvasni/tanulni szerető"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "dużo czytający"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "knížnyj",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "кни́жный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "estudioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "tags": [
        "Mexico"
      ],
      "word": "matado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "tags": [
        "Chile",
        "pejorative"
      ],
      "word": "mateo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "pejorative"
      ],
      "word": "empollón"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "bikherdik",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "ביכערדיק"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "ongeleyent",
      "sense": "given to reading; fond of study",
      "word": "אָנגעלייענט"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "knižen",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "книжен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "knižní"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "schools"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "pedant"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "formalistisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "litterair"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "eigengereid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "paperinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "paperinmakuinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "scolaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "pédant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "formaliste"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "littéraire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "cuistre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "livresque"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "lógios",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "λόγιος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "hivatalos"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "hivataloskodó"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "papírízű"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "könyvszagú"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "könyvszerű"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "tudálékos"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぶんごの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bungo no",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "文語の"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "pustakī",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "पुस्तकी"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "książkowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "knížnyj",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "кни́жный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "literario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "pedante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "formalista"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "libresco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "skriftspråklig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "litterär"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "lomdish",
      "sense": "characterized by a method of expression generally found in books",
      "word": "לומדיש"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bookish"
}

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