🎓 Academic, not practical 📚 Likes reading

booky

1 7.7

A way of writing like school books that gives few real examples

adjective
/ˈbʊki/

: teórico

The professor's explanations were too booky for students who wanted hands-on experience.

Examples

Some people find the course too booky and wish it included more real-world applications.
Her writing style is quite booky, filled with references and academic language.
This report is very booky.
Her style is quite booky.
The professor's explanations were too booky for students who wanted hands-on experience.
Her writing style is quite booky, filled with references and academic language.
Some people find the course too booky and wish it included more real-world applications.

Synonyms

textbook

vsbooky

48 4.4

A very typical example of how something usually happens

focuses on scholarly or literary tone and often lacks practical examples

bookish

vsbooky

10 6.5

A person who likes books and reading more than practical activities

refers to an academic style that often lacks practical examples

overly researchy

vsbooky

Informal

9.9

Too academic and formal for general readers to understand

is less formal and more accessible to casual readers

Antonyms

practical

465 2.6

About how something works in real life rather than in ideas

hands-on

84 3.9

Involving direct practical work rather than only theory

How Academic

academic

400 4.2

theoretical

111 6.3

booky

1 7.7

literary

Literature

204 6.3

practical

465 2.6

Surface Forms

booky positive

Morphology

booky = book (transparent) = book + y

The sense 'relating to books or scholarship' is a direct adjectival use of 'book' with '-y'; the evaluative shade ('lacking practical examples') is pragmatic but the basic relation is inferable.

Etymology

The word booky comes from book and the ending -y, meaning 'like' or 'full of', and is similar to bookish. So a booky style is 'from books' rather than practical, which is why it can feel academic and without real examples.