Synonyms for donnish

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academic · scholarly · pedantic

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Adjective

Definitions

1. adj. 1

   Characteristic of a university don.

Example sentences

• academic Academic writing could be supported by statistics.
• scholarly Israeli historian Ilan Pappe wrote many scholarly works.
• pedantic You pride yourself on being pedantic, don't you?

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

8 letters

academic⁴, pedantic³

9 letters

scholarly³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (academic⁴ = 4 syllables).