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donnish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective donnish has 1 sense
- donnish(s = adj.all) academic, pedantic - marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects; Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
donnish, adj. like or resembling a college don, esp. in supposed pedantry.
Derivative
donnishly adv. donnishness n.
THESAURUS
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
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