Bookish vs Brainy - What's the difference?
bookish | brainy | Related terms |
Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books.
* 1783 , , The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ?, page 16
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.
* 1996 , Helen L. Harrison, Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-century French Comedy? , page 50
(informal) Very intellectually capable.
Bookish is a related term of brainy.
As adjectives the difference between bookish and brainy
is that bookish is given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books while brainy is (informal) very intellectually capable.bookish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession.
- Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.