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bookish

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Strongly interested in books or learning, sometimes more than in practical experience.

The bookish visitor could happily spend an afternoon discussing unfamiliar authors.

Dictionary practice example.

A bookish apprentice arrived at the weaving workshop with notebooks full of reading about cloth, though she had little experience using a loom.