"bookish" meaning in English

See bookish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/ [US, UK] Audio: en-au-bookish.ogg [Australia] Forms: bookish [positive], more bookish [comparative], most bookish [superlative]
Etymology: book + -ish Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|book|ish}} book + -ish Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If someone is bookish, then they are like to read a lot, especially serious books.
    Sense id: simple-bookish-en-adj-F4KyFSAL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ish
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms suffixed with -ish",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "book",
        "2": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "book + -ish",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "book + -ish",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bookish",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more bookish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bookish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "more": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "book‧ish",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "If someone is bookish, then they are like to read a lot, especially serious books."
      ],
      "id": "simple-bookish-en-adj-F4KyFSAL"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bookish.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bookish"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Terms suffixed with -ish"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "book",
        "2": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "book + -ish",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "book + -ish",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bookish",
      "tags": [
        "positive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more bookish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bookish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "more": "true"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "book‧ish",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "If someone is bookish, then they are like to read a lot, especially serious books."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bookish.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bookish"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bookish meaning in English (0.7kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.