Synonyms and Antonyms of bookish
- "fealty" is a bookish synonym for "loyalty"
academic (also academical), donnish, inkhorn, pedantic, scholastic
belletristic (also belle-lettristic)
highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual
elevated, eloquent, formal, high-flown, lofty, majestic, stately, towering
bombastic, declamatory, florid, flowery, grandiloquent, highfalutin (also hifalutin), pompous, stilted