Bookish - English meaning

adjective

Relating to education and scholarship.

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Academic achievement

noun

A teacher or scholar in a university or other institute of higher education.

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The eu offers grants to academics for research on approved projects

adjective

Relating to schools, esp. colleges and universities, or connected with studying and thinking and not with useful skills

Usage examples:

Which diamond ring you like more is purely academic, because i can’t afford either one.

adjective

Highly trained or skilled in a particular activity.

Usage examples:

An accomplished pianist

verb

Achieve or complete successfully.

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The planes accomplished their mission

adjective

Able to do or finish something successfully

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She’s an accomplished (= skilled) violinist.

adjective

Characterized by refined taste and manners and good education.

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A cultured and intelligent man

verb

Maintain (tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) in conditions suitable for growth.

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Several investigators have attempted to culture biliary cells

adjective

Having been educated.

Usage examples:

A harvard-educated lawyer

verb

Give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone), typically at a school or university.

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She was educated at a boarding school

adjective

Having learned a lot at school or university and having a good level of knowledge

Usage examples:

She was probably the most highly educated prime minister of this century.

adjective

Having or showing great knowledge or learning.

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Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion

adjective

Having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people

Usage examples:

He's the author of an erudite book on scottish history.

adjective

Intellectual or rarefied in taste.

Usage examples:

Innovatory art had a small, mostly highbrow following

noun

A highbrow person.

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She considered all those without television as highbrows, intellectual snobs, or paupers

adjective

(of literature, art, music, films, or plays) serious and intended for intelligent educated people who know a lot about these forms of art, or (of people) intelligent and knowing a lot about such things

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Highbrow entertainment, a highbrow intellectual

adjective

Relating to the intellect.

Usage examples:

Children need intellectual stimulation

noun

A person possessing a highly developed intellect.

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A prominent political thinker and intellectual

adjective

Relating to the ability to think and understand ideas at a high level, or involving ideas

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He was among the political and intellectual leaders of his time.

adjective

Intelligent and well informed.

Usage examples:

She is very knowledgeable about livestock and pedigrees

adjective

Knowing a lot

Usage examples:

He's very knowledgeable about german literature.

adjective

(of a person) having acquired much knowledge through study.

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A learned, generous, and notoriously absent-minded man

verb

Gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.

Usage examples:

They'd started learning french

adjective

Having or showing much knowledge

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A learned scholar

adjective

Concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form.

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The great literary works of the nineteenth century

adjective

Relating to teaching.

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Innovative pedagogical methods

adjective

Relating to the practice of teaching and its methods

Usage examples:

The book describes current pedagogical methods used in teaching reading.

adjective

Excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.

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His analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic

adjective

Caring too much about unimportant rules or details and not enough about understanding or appreciating a subject

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Professor harris had a narrow, pedantic approach to history that put us to sleep.

adjective

Involving or relating to serious academic study.

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Scholarly journals

adjective

Spending a lot of time studying or reading.

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He was quiet and studious

adjective

Liking to study

Usage examples:

She was a studious child who spent hours reading.