Bookish

a.	1.	Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
	2.	Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

Adj.

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bookish - characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child" Synonyms: studious

autodidactic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, booky, college-bred, collegiate, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, graduate, highbrow, inkhorn, literary, mandarin, owlish, pedantic, postgraduate, professorial, rabbinic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate