notebookish
notebookish adjective: characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
Adjective
notebookish (comparative more notebookish, superlative most notebookish)
- Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
- In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish.1991, Stand Magazine, volume 33, page 56
- So it's not merely that Ioannou is using notebookish, intellectually inert, ashen-phrased poems to secure her insights about poetry; she's also using the face-value ideas of prosody to launder mediocre Canadian poetry into art.2004, Carmine Starnino, A Lover's Quarrel: Essays and Reviews, page 100
Forms of notebookish
| comparative | more notebookish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most notebookish |
Origin of notebookish
From notebook + -ish.
Questions about notebookish
- What does notebookish mean?
- Notebookish means characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
- What part of speech is notebookish?
- Notebookish is an adjective.
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