donnish

3 definitions found

donnish - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

donnish - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  donnish
      adj 1: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
             especially its trivial aspects [syn: academic,
             donnish, pedantic]

donnish - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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