donnish

donnish
Synonyms and related words:
academic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, bookish, booky, devoted to studies, diligent, dryasdust, inkhorn, literary, mandarin, owlish, pedagogic, pedantic, preceptorial, professorial, professorlike, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, studious, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tutorial

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • donnish — adj. like a university don; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning, especially its trivial aspects. Syn: academic, pedantic, bookish. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • donnish — 1835, from DON (Cf. don) (n.) in the university sense + ISH (Cf. ish). Related: Donnishness …   Etymology dictionary

  • donnish — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ resembling a college don, particularly in having a pedantic manner …   English terms dictionary

  • donnish — [dän′ish] adj. of or like a university don donnishly adv. donnishness n …   English World dictionary

  • donnish — [[t]dɒ̱nɪʃ[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe a man as donnish, you think he is rather serious and intellectual. [mainly BRIT] He is precise and mildly donnish in manner …   English dictionary

  • donnish — adjective Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical. The new engineer had a donnish air, and found it difficult to communicate with the workers in the factory …   Wiktionary

  • donnish — adjective Date: 1848 of, relating to, or characteristic of a university don • donnishly adverb • donnishness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • donnish — donnishly, adv. donnishness, n. donnism, n. /don ish/, adj. resembling or characteristic of a university don; bookish; pedantic. [1825 35; DON1 + ISH1] * * * …   Universalium

  • donnish — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters: academic, bookish, formalistic, inkhorn, literary, pedantic, pedantical, scholastic. See… …   English dictionary for students

  • donnish — don|nish [ˈdɔnıʃ US ˈda:nıʃ] adj BrE clever, serious, and more interested in ideas than real life …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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