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cookbookish

cookbookish adjective: following a set formula.

Adjective

cookbookish (comparative more cookbookish, superlative most cookbookish)

  1. (colloquial) Following a set formula.

Forms of cookbookish

comparativemore cookbookish
superlativemost cookbookish

Origin of cookbookish

From cookbook + -ish, in reference to recipes.

Questions about cookbookish

What does cookbookish mean?
Cookbookish means following a set formula.
What part of speech is cookbookish?
Cookbookish is an adjective.

Words near cookbookish in the dictionary

  1. cookalorises
  2. Cookamidgera
  3. Cookardinia
  4. cookbook
  5. cookbookery
  6. cookbookish
  7. cookbooks
  8. cookdom
  9. Cooke
  10. Cooke County
  11. Cooke triplet

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