Usually means: Excessively focused on academic learning.
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  1. overbookish: Wordnik
  2. overbookish: Wiktionary
  3. Overbookish: Dictionary.com
  4. Overbookish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. overbookish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Overbookish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. overbookish: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Overbookish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Excessively bookish.

Similar:
overintellectual, overliterary, overwordy, oververbose, overprolix, book-ridden, overbulky, overstudious, overboisterous, overregular, more...

Opposite:
underbooked, unbooked, available

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Similar:
overintellectual, overliterary, overwordy, oververbose, overprolix, book-ridden, overbulky, overstudious, overboisterous, overregular, more...

Opposite:
underbooked, unbooked, available



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