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textbookish

textbookish adjective: characteristic of a textbook.

Adjective

textbookish (comparative more textbookish, superlative most textbookish)

  1. Characteristic of a textbook
    • Another shortcoming of After You're Out is a lack of the emotion-invoking personality that was so evident in Out Of The Closets […] most of the essays seem cold and clinical. In this respect, After You're Out seems textbookish.1976 February 7, Mark N. Silber, “After You're Out Is the Post-Stonewall Guide to Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 16

Forms of textbookish

comparativemore textbookish
superlativemost textbookish

Origin of textbookish

From textbook + -ish.

Questions about textbookish

What does textbookish mean?
Textbookish means characteristic of a textbook.
What part of speech is textbookish?
Textbookish is an adjective.

Words near textbookish in the dictionary

  1. textbook case
  2. textbook cases
  3. textbook example
  4. textbook examples
  5. textbookery
  6. textbookish
  7. textbookless
  8. textbooklike
  9. textbooks
  10. textbooky
  11. textbox

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