donnish \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 v.0.48
donnish
adj : marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
especially its trivial aspects [syn: academic, pedantic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "donnish":
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 II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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