Bookish vs Wonkish - What's the difference?
bookish | wonkish |
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
Nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk
*{{quote-book, 1997, Edwin Diamond & Robert A. Silverman, White House to Your House
, passage=According to Greer, the voting classes were ready for someone very much like the wonkish Clinton, with his devotion to "the issues." }}
As adjectives the difference between bookish and wonkish
is that bookish is given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books while wonkish is nerdy; bookish; having the qualities of a wonk.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.
Synonyms
* (characterized by expression found in books) formal, labored, literary, pedanticDerived terms
* bookishly * bookishnessSee also
* nerdAnagrams
*wonkish
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Adjective
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