| Main Entry: | bookish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scholarly |
Synonyms: |
academic, brainy, intelligent, learned, literary, pedantic, scholastic, smart, studious |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, stupid, unschooled |
| Main Entry: | academic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relating to schooling, learning |
Synonyms: |
book-learned, bookish, college, collegiate, erudite, intellectual, learned, pedantic, scholarly, scholastic, studious, university |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, untaught |
| Main Entry: | classical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning ancient culture |
Synonyms: |
Attic, Augustan, Doric, Grecian, Greek, Hellenic, Homeric, Ionic, Latin, Roman, Virgilian, academic, belletristic, bookish, canonic, canonical, classic, classicistic, humanistic, scholastic |
| Notes: | for classic, assume the meaning 'of the highest class' and 'typical, excellent as an example; timeless' and for classical 'pertaining to or characteristic of Greek or Roman antiquity or civilization' |
| Main Entry: | highbrow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intellectual |
Synonyms: |
bookish, brainy, cerebral, cultivated, cultured, erudite, intellective, intelligent, learned, scholarly, studious, wise |
| Main Entry: | intellectual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very smart |
Synonyms: |
bookish, brainy, cerebral, creative, highbrow, highbrowed, intellective, intelligent, inventive, learned, mental, phrenic, psychological, rational, scholarly, studious, subjective, thoughtful |
Antonyms: |
foolish, ignorant, simple, stupid |
| Main Entry: | learned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-informed |
Synonyms: |
abstruse, academic, accomplished, bookish, brainy, conversant, cultivated, cultured, deep*, educated, erudite, esoteric, experienced, expert, grave, grounded, highbrow, in the know, intellectual, judicious, lettered, literary, literate, omniscient, pansophic, pedantic, philosophic, philosophical, polymath, posted, professorial, recondite, sage, sapient, scholarly, scientific, sharp, skilled, solemn, solid, sound, studied, studious, versed, well-educated, well-grounded, well-read, well-rounded |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, stupid, uninformed |
| Main Entry: | literary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning books |
Synonyms: |
belletristic, bookish, classical, erudite, formal, learned, lettered, literate, scholarly, well-read |
Antonyms: |
illiterate |
| Main Entry: | scholarly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | academic |
Synonyms: |
bookish, cultured, educated, erudite, intellectual, learned, lettered, literate, longhair, scholastic, schooled, studious, taught, trained, well-read |
Antonyms: |
uneducated, unscholarly |
| Main Entry: | studious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scholarly, attentive |
Synonyms: |
academic, assiduous, bookish, bookworm, busy, careful, contemplative, diligent, eager, earnest, grubbing, hard-working, industrious, intellectual, learned, lettered, meditative, reflective, sedulous, serious, thoughtful, well-informed, well-read |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, inattentive, lazy, unscholarly |
| Main Entry: | well-read |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knowing much from reading |
Synonyms: |
bookish, cultured, educated, knowledgeable, literate, scholarly, studious, versed, well versed in, well-informed, widely read, widely read |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, uniformed |