Donnish

Definition: Donnish

Donnish

Adjective

1. Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Donnish

Books

• Decline of Donnish Dominion: The British Academic Professions in the Twentieth Century (reference)

• Oxford, Cambridge and the Changing Idea of the University: The Challenge to Donnish Domination (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

zyrtar (administrative, ceremonial, ceremonious, formal, functionary, magistrate, official, officialese, officinal, regular), pedant (dryasdust, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, meticulous, pedagogue, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, verbalist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

поучителен (admonitory, didactic, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, gnomic, improving, instructive, moral, preceptive, preceptorial, sapiential), педантичен (academic, academical, bookish, finical, literal, mandarin, niminy-piminy, pedantic, pettifogging, precise, priggish, punctilious, punctual, scholastic, starchy, stuffy). (various references)

Czech

vzdìlaný (cultivated, cultured, educated, refined, well educated), pedantský (finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, meticulous, pedantic, prim), intelektuální (cerebral, intellectual). (various references)

French

de savant. (various references)

Greek 

σχολαστικόσ (bookish, fastidious, finicky, pedagogue, pedant, pedantic, pettifogging, punctilious, scholastic). (various references)

Hebrew 

למ×"× ×™ (bookish, learned, scholarly). (various references)

Hungarian

professzoros (professorial). (various references)

Italian

pedantesco (pedantic). (various references)

Pig Latin

onnishday.(various references)

Portuguese

pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, prig, priggish, select, showy, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky), pedante (bumbling, cloddish, pedant, pedantic, prig, priggish, square-toed, uncouth, wiseacre). (various references)

Russian 

чванный (po-faced, uppish), чопорный (buckram, niminy-piminy, prim, prim and proper, prissy, stand offish, starchy, strait-laced), важный (consequential, earnest, first rate, grave, humungous, important, momentous, of consequence, of great moment, of importance, of significance, portentous, prancing, serious, significant, substantial, weighty), педантичный (pedantic, precise, priggish, punctilious, square-toed). (various references)

Spanish

pedantesco (pedantic, pedantical), erudito (erudite, knowledgeable, learned, learner, polymath, scholar, scholarly). (various references)

Turkish

ukalâca (cavalierly, priggish, sapiently, scholastic, sesquipedalian, smart-alecky, stupidly), hoca gibi, bilgiçlik taslayan (pedantic, pragmatic, pragmatical, priggish). (various references)

Ukrainian

манірний (affected, angular, ceremonious, finical, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, offish, prim, prudish, smug, starchy), педантичний (dryasdust, meticulous, notional, pedantic, pedantical, pernickety, persnickety, precise, priggish, prim, punctilious, square-toed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trí thức rởm; tự phụ, thông thái rởm, tự mãn (bumptious, cocksy, cocky, consequential, coxy, self-content, self-contentment, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, self-sufficing), tự cao (pompous), tự đại. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "donnish": donnishly, donnishness, donnishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Donnish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dagnish, deanish, dinkish, Donagh, Donichem, donis, donish, donnis, Donogh, dronnies, johnish, Onishi, soonish, tonish. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hinds.

-3 letters: dins, dish, dons, hind, hins, hisn, hods, hons, inns, ions, nodi, nods, nosh, shin, shod, sinh.

-4 letters: din, dis, don, dos, hid, hin, his, hod, hon, ids, inn, ins, ion, nod, noh, nos, ods, ohs, ons, sin, sod, son.

-5 letters: do, hi, ho, id, in, is, no, od, oh, on, os, sh.

+2 letters: donnishly, thindowns.

+3 letters: anhedonias, endorphins, inholdings, whodunnits.

+4 letters: admonishing, deinonychus, dishonoring, donnishness, enshrouding, indophenols, nationhoods, nonadhesive, rhinestoned, stanchioned.

+5 letters: admonishment, chondroitins, cyanohydrins, downshifting, enchiridions, handholdings, landholdings, synchronised, synchronized.