(often disapproving) interested in reading and studying, rather than in more active or practical things:
He was more bookish and intellectual than many of his fellow students.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for bookish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is bookish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, bookish is tagged as adjective.
Does bookish appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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