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- owlish
- resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- professorial
collapse - relating to or characteristic of professors; "professorial demeanor" related words >
- academic,
- bookish,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- mandarin,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedantic,
- preceptorial,
- professorlike,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- studious,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tutorial
- Gemaric,
- Mishnaic,
- Talmudic,
- abbatial,
- abbatical,
- academic,
- archiepiscopal,
- bookish,
- canonical,
- capitular,
- capitulary,
- churchly,
- clerical,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- ecclesiastic,
- episcopal,
- episcopalian,
- evangelistic,
- mandarin,
- ministerial,
- owlish,
- pastoral,
- pedantic,
- prelatial,
- prelatic,
- priest-ridden,
- priestish,
- priestly,
- professorial,
- sacerdotal,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- studious,
- ultramontane
- bookish
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- characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child" related words >
- academic,
- autodidactic,
- bibliophagic,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- booky,
- college-bred,
- collegiate,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- graduate,
- highbrow,
- inkhorn,
- learned,
- literary,
- mandarin,
- owlish,
- pedantic,
- postgraduate,
- professorial,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolboyish,
- schoolgirlish,
- sophomoric,
- studentlike,
- studious,
- undergraduate
- academic,
- bibliophagic,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- booky,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- dryasdust,
- inkhorn,
- literary,
- mandarin,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedantic,
- preceptorial,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- studious,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tutorial
- scholarly
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- characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude" related words >
- abstruse,
- academic,
- bookish,
- brainy,
- civilized,
- cross-disciplinary,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- deep,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- disciplinary,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- educated,
- egghead,
- encyclopedic,
- erudite,
- graduate,
- graduate-professional,
- highbrowed,
- intellectual,
- interdisciplinary,
- learned,
- lettered,
- literate,
- longhair,
- mandarin,
- owlish,
- pansophic,
- pedagogical,
- pedantic,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- postgraduate,
- professional,
- professorial,
- profound,
- rabbinic,
- scholastic,
- schoolish,
- scientific,
- studious,
- taught,
- technical,
- technicological,
- technological,
- trained,
- wise
- academic
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- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
- associated with academia or an academy; "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns" related words >
- abstract,
- armchair,
- book-learned,
- bookish,
- booky,
- chimerical,
- classroom,
- closet,
- collegiate,
- conjectural,
- cross-disciplinary,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- erudite,
- extramural,
- graduate,
- graduate-professional,
- hypothetic,
- hypothetical,
- ideal,
- idealistic,
- imaginary,
- impractical,
- interdisciplinary,
- interscholastic,
- intramural,
- ivory-tower,
- learned,
- lettered,
- mandarin,
- moot,
- notional,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedagogical,
- pedantic,
- postgraduate,
- postulatory,
- preceptorial,
- preschool,
- professional,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- school,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- speculative,
- studious,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- theoretical,
- tutorial,
- university,
- unpractical,
- unrealistic,
- utopian,
- visionary
- studious
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- marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to fix the television set" related words >
- absorbed,
- absorbed in,
- abstruse,
- academic,
- advised,
- aforethought,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- autodidactic,
- bookish,
- buried in,
- careful,
- caught up in,
- civilized,
- college-bred,
- collegiate,
- considered,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- deep,
- designed,
- devoted,
- devoted to,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- educated,
- encyclopedic,
- engaged,
- engrossed,
- engrossed in,
- erudite,
- graduate,
- immersed in,
- industrious,
- intent,
- intent on,
- involved,
- learned,
- lettered,
- literate,
- lost in,
- mandarin,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- monomaniacal,
- monopolized,
- obsessed,
- occupied,
- owlish,
- painstaking,
- pansophic,
- pedantic,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- postgraduate,
- premeditated,
- preoccupied,
- prepense,
- professorial,
- profound,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolboyish,
- schoolgirlish,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sophomoric,
- studentlike,
- studied,
- studying,
- submerged in,
- swept up,
- taken up with,
- thorough,
- thought-out,
- tireless,
- totally absorbed,
- undergraduate,
- wise,
- wrapped in,
- wrapped up in
- Jonathan Oldbuck,
- Miniver Cheevy,
- Pre-Raphaelite,
- academic,
- antiquarian,
- antiquary,
- antique collector,
- antique dealer,
- antique-car collector,
- archaeologist,
- archaist,
- arid,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bookish,
- bore,
- broken-record,
- bromidic,
- buttonholer,
- characterless,
- classicist,
- cold,
- colorless,
- crashing bore,
- dead,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- dismal,
- donnish,
- drag,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drip,
- dry,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- everlasting,
- fade,
- flat,
- flat tire,
- frightful bore,
- harping,
- headache,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- invariable,
- jejune,
- jog-trot,
- laudator temporis acti,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-winded,
- low-spirited,
- mandarin,
- medievalist,
- monotonous,
- nuisance,
- owlish,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- pest,
- pill,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- professorial,
- prolix,
- proser,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- singsong,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- treadmill,
- twaddler,
- uneventful,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unvarying,
- vapid,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- wet blanket,
- wooden
- diligent
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- characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks; "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a diligent search of the files"
- quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business" related words >
- academic,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- ardent,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- bookish,
- careful,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- constant,
- continuing,
- devoted to studies,
- dogged,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- earnest,
- elaborate,
- enduring,
- energetic,
- faithful,
- fervent,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- hard,
- hard-working,
- hardworking,
- heedful,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- insistent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- invincible,
- laborious,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mandarin,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- never idle,
- never-tiring,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- obstinate,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- operose,
- owlish,
- painstaking,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- pedantic,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- professorial,
- punctilious,
- rabbinic,
- rapt,
- regardful,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- strenuous,
- stubborn,
- studious,
- tenacious,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unsparing,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vehement,
- watchful,
- weariless,
- zealous
- scholastic
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- a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
- of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy" related words >
- Cyrenaic,
- Eleatic,
- Epicurean,
- Megarian,
- Stoic,
- abstruse,
- academic,
- academician,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- bibliophagic,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- bookman,
- booky,
- canonist,
- civilized,
- classicist,
- classroom,
- clerk,
- collegiate,
- colossus of knowledge,
- conversant,
- cosmotheistic,
- cross-disciplinary,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- deep,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- divine,
- divinity student,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- eclectic,
- educated,
- empirical,
- encyclopedic,
- erudite,
- eudaemonistic,
- existential,
- extramural,
- formal,
- genius,
- giant of learning,
- graduate,
- graduate-professional,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- idealistic,
- inkhorn,
- instrumentalist,
- interdisciplinary,
- interscholastic,
- intramural,
- learned,
- learned clerk,
- learned man,
- lettered,
- literary,
- literary man,
- literate,
- litterateur,
- lover of learning,
- man of learning,
- man of letters,
- mandarin,
- mastermind,
- materialistic,
- mechanistic,
- metaphysical,
- mine of information,
- monistic,
- naturalistic,
- nominalist,
- owlish,
- panlogistical,
- pansophic,
- pantheistic,
- pedagogical,
- pedantic,
- philologist,
- philologue,
- philomath,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- polyhistor,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- postgraduate,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- preschool,
- professional,
- professorial,
- profound,
- pundit,
- rabbinic,
- rationalistic,
- realist,
- realistic,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scholarly,
- school,
- schoolish,
- schoolman,
- sensationalistic,
- student,
- studious,
- syncretistic,
- theistic,
- theologian,
- theological,
- theologician,
- theologist,
- theologizer,
- theologue,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- university,
- utilitarian,
- versed,
- vitalistic,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- walking encyclopedia,
- wise
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- academic,
- accordant,
- affected,
- anal,
- arid,
- bedizened,
- bibliophagic,
- big-sounding,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- booky,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- convoluted,
- corresponding,
- declamatory,
- devoted to studies,
- didactic,
- diligent,
- doctrinaire,
- donnish,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- erudite,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicky,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- hair-splitting,
- harmonious,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inkhorn,
- kosher,
- labyrinthine,
- learned,
- legalistic,
- lexiphanic,
- literary,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mandarin,
- meretricious,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nit-picking,
- nominal,
- orotund,
- orthodox,
- ostentatious,
- outward,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- overwrought,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedantical,
- perfectionist,
- plastic,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- preceptorial,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- quibbling,
- rabbinic,
- rhetorical,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- scrupulous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- simpering,
- sonorous,
- square,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- straight,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- tall,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tortuous,
- traditionalist,
- tutorial,
- uptight,
- vain
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