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111turgid — Synonyms and related words: Latinate, aureate, awkward, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug eyed, bulged, cramped, cumbrous, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, elephantine, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, fat, flatulent,… …
112unwieldy — Synonyms and related words: Latinate, all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling, bungling, burdensome, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted, contrary, cramped, crosswise, cumbersome,… …
113ink — The single reference in the OT (Jer. 36:18) probably refers to a mixture of soot and gum arabic which was used for writing on papyrus. Ezekiel (9:2–3) mentioned an inkhorn which would have contained the ingredients for making ink and could be… …
114academic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. scholastic, collegiate; educational; scholarly, erudite; theoretical. See teaching, learning, supposition. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Referring to learned matters] Syn. scholastic, erudite,… …
115bookish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. studious; formal. See learning. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. scholarly, academic, erudite, book learned; see learned 1 , pedantic . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. studious, academic, scholarly,… …
116literary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. bookish, scholarly, long haired (sl.). See knowledge, writing. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. arcane, bookish, belletristic; see learned 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. bookish, literate,… …
117pedantic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. precise, formal, narrow; bookish, stilted; affected, sophomoric. See affectation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. formal, precise, pompous, ostentatious of learning, pedagogic, punctilious, bookish,… …
118scholastic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. academic, literary, lettered; see learned 1 , 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters: academic …
119donnish — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters: academic, bookish, formalistic, inkhorn, literary, pedantic, pedantical, scholastic. See… …
120formalistic — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters: academic, bookish, donnish, inkhorn, literary, pedantic, pedantical, scholastic. See… …
