bookish /'bukij; 'bukiJ/ adj of books and studies: 書(shū)的; 讀書(shū)的： a ~ person, one who gives much time to reading; 花很多時(shí)間證書(shū)的人; 好膜書(shū)的人; ~ expressions, found in books but not colloquial; 書(shū)中的 (非口語(yǔ)的) 辭句; 迂腐的辭句; a ~ style, literary, not colloquial. 文縊縊的 (非口語(yǔ)的) 文體。~ - ness n