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I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.
Guy Gavriel Kay

Meaning of "bookish" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BOOKISH

bookish  [ˈbʊkɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOOKISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bookish is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BOOKISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bookish

Bookish.com is a content discovery and ecommerce website devoted to books which launched in February 2013. The site allows users to browse an extensive database of books and authors, add books to user-created digital "shelves", get custom book recommendations, read editorial content and purchase physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks.

Definition of bookish in the English dictionary

The first definition of bookish in the dictionary is fond of reading; studious. Other definition of bookish is consisting of or forming opinions or attitudes through reading rather than direct personal experience; academic. Bookish is also of or relating to books.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOOKISH


blackish
ˈblækɪʃ
blokeish
ˈbləʊkɪʃ
blokish
ˈbləʊkɪʃ
brackish
ˈbrækɪʃ
darkish
ˈdɑːkɪʃ
folkish
ˈfəʊkɪʃ
Frankish
ˈfræŋkɪʃ
freakish
ˈfriːkɪʃ
hawkish
ˈhɔːkɪʃ
kish
kɪʃ
mawkish
ˈmɔːkɪʃ
peckish
ˈpɛkɪʃ
pinkish
ˈpɪŋnkɪʃ
prankish
ˈpræŋkɪʃ
puckish
ˈpʌkɪʃ
punkish
ˈpʌŋkɪʃ
rookish
ˈrʊkɪʃ
textbookish
ˈtɛkstˌbʊkɪʃ
Turkish
ˈtɜːkɪʃ
unbookish
ʌnˈbʊkɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOOKISH

booked up
booker
Booker Prize
bookful
bookie
booking
booking clerk
booking fee
booking form
booking office
bookishly
bookishness
bookland
bookless
booklet
booklice
booklight
booklore
booklouse
bookmaker

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOOKISH

bleakish
blockish
briskish
buckish
clerkish
cockish
dankish
duskish
hickish
lakish
larkish
luskish
parkish
rakish
sickish
sneakish
spookish
stockish
thickish
weakish

Synonyms and antonyms of bookish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BOOKISH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bookish» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bookish

Translation of «bookish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOOKISH

Find out the translation of bookish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bookish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bookish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

书卷气
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

libresco
570 millions of speakers

English

bookish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

किताबी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كتبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

книжное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

livresco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কেতাবি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

livresque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bookish
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

buchsprachlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

本好きの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

학문에 열중
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bookish
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sách vở
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Bookish
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बुटीक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kitapsever
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

libresco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

książkowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

книжкове
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

livresc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σχολαστικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

boek achtig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bookish
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bookish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bookish

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOOKISH»

The term «bookish» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.967 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOOKISH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «bookish» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «bookish» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bookish

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10 QUOTES WITH «BOOKISH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bookish.
1
Blake Bailey
I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.
2
Richard Coyle
I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.
3
Michael De Luca
I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.
4
Guy Gavriel Kay
I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.
5
John Logan
I'm a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part.
6
Bharati Mukherjee
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
7
Piper Perabo
I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.
8
Laura Ramsey
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
9
Richard Rorty
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
10
Aisha Tyler
I was this weird little bookish giant.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOOKISH»

Discover the use of bookish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bookish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Old Picture Books, with Other Essays on Bookish Subjects
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Alfred W. 1859 Pollard, 2010
2
Bookish Histories: Books, Literature, and Commercial ...
This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new bookish literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the ...
Ina Ferris, Paul Keen, 2009
3
Bookish Arousal
... or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author's imagination and used fictitiously. BOOKISH AROUSAL Berengaria Brown Dedication To readers of erotic romance.
Berengaria Brown, 2011
4
Hither and Thither: A Collection of Comments on Books and ...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
John Thomson, 2010
5
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
and sometimes it implies a decided literary or rhetorical quality (bookish words) ( bookish interests) Ana »learned, erudite: »recondite, abstruse pedestrian adj » dull, humdrum, dreary, monotonous, stodgy Ana commonplace, platitudinous, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
6
Charleston Conference Proceedings 2005
We came up with a ratio we call the “bookish multiplier” to capture the variable of library usage. The bookish multiplier is a ratio between circulation and credit hours (circulation/credit hours = bookish multiplier). This measurement seems to  ...
Beth R. Bernhardt, Tim Daniels, Kim Steinle, 2006
7
The Art of Causal Conjecture
Is the family bookish? bookish not bookish Is family income high? high Does the child participate in the summer reading program? X = reading score Figure 3.9 Values and expected values for a child's score on a reading test. In the text, the ...
Glenn Shafer, 1996
8
America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal Arts
My. Turn: A. Great. Bookish. Tell-all. was there—a witness at the site of the most famous battleground in the civil war over the so-called “canon.” I taught one of the Great Books courses full time for three years at Stanford University1 in ...
John E. Seery, 2012
9
The Cuckoo's Calling - 101 Amazing Facts & Trivia King!: Fun ...
... 64. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16160797-thecuckoo-s-calling 65. http://www.bookish.com/articles/the-cuckoos-callingby-robert-galbraith-j-k- rowling-review-roundup 66.
G Whiz, 2014
10
The Cuckoo's Calling - 101 Amazing Facts & True or False?: ...
... 65. http://www.bookish.com/articles/the-cuckoos-callingby-robert-galbraith-j-k- rowling-review-roundup 66. http://www.bookish.com/articles/the-cuckoos- callingby-robert-galbraith-j-k-rowling-review-roundup 67.
G Whiz, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOOKISH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bookish is used in the context of the following news items.
1
12 tantalizing tidbits spotted in eerie, unofficial trailer for Netflix's …
Bookish Klaus Baudelaire's glasses sit atop a pile of volumes including How to Start Fires, likely one of the most-read titles in Olaf's library. «Mashable, Jul 15»
2
11 Summer Music Videos That Could've Only Come Out 10 Years Ago
Music videos during the '05 summer were different too, mainly in their ridiculously bright, lucid, almost comic-bookish color schemes. Seriously ... «MTV.com, Jul 15»
3
Oh, Dear! What Can the Meta Be?
... a.k.a. Fingersmith (Sara Bruner); and a bookish heiress, Maude (Erica Sullivan). It's a complex symbiosis. The three women mutually sustain ... «A News Cafe, Jul 15»
4
Five apps that need to be developed for bookish people
I have listed, here, my dream list of bookish apps. Can someone invent them already? Home library management. This is just a garden variety ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
5
There's more to 'Moonlight' Graham's story
In those pages, “Archie” comes across as wholesome as a Hardy Boy: fast and athletic, but also bookish. He managed to juggle playing ... «News & Observer, Jul 15»
6
Record Bin: How The Smiths reimagined '80s pop on "The Queen Is …
... sounded better than they do on these songs—there's an electrifying interplay between Marr's guitar and Morrissey's bookish lyrical charm. «Nooga.com, Jul 15»
7
Finders keepers
While he is locked away, a bookish teen chances upon the hidden treasure and decides that it is finders keepers. This sets things up for a ... «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
8
Bookish Harper Lee Adaptation Honours Classic Novel
Harper's Lee first and — until recently — only novel celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010, but although it's more than half a century old, ... «Londonist, Jul 15»
9
Jeremy Corbyn: full story of the lefty candidate the Tories would love …
His mother was more bookish, inspiring in young Jeremy a love of history and literature and igniting his political consciousness by giving him a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
10
Rheta Johnson: Brake for books at Little Free Libraries
I thought by now some horse-loving, bookish young girl would have stopped for “National Velvet,” would see it from a passing car and say to ... «Alexandria Town Talk, Jul 15»

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