Definitions

donnish

[don-ish] / ˈdɒn ɪʃ /

ADJECTIVE

didactic

Synonyms

WEAK

academic advisory edifying enlightening exhortative expository homiletic hortative instructive moral moralizing pedagogic pedantic preachy preceptive schoolmasterist sermonic sermonizing teacherish teacherly teachy

ADJECTIVE

didactical

Synonyms

WEAK

didactic homiletic homiletical lecturelike moralizing pedantic pedantical preachy

ADJECTIVE

inkhorn

Synonyms

WEAK

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting learned literary nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic pedantical pompous priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious stilted

ADJECTIVE

pedantic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abstruse pompous stilted

WEAK

academic arid didactic doctrinaire dry dull egotistic erudite formal fussy hairsplitting learned nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

plain simple

WEAK

imprecise informal

ADJECTIVE

pedantical

Synonyms

WEAK

abstruse academic arid bookish didactic doctrinaire dry dull egotistic erudite formal formalistic fussy hairsplitting inkhorn learned literary nit-picking ostentatious overnice particular pedagogic pompous priggish punctilious scholastic schoolish sententious stilted

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Donnish and punk-rock at the same time, Berger didn’t need to scream or use fancy words in “Ways of Seeing,” his groundbreaking BBC 2 series from 1972.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2017

I was for such untranslatable phrases as the "Genteel Whig," or the "Donnish Liberal."

From War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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