donnish

• Descreve uma pessoa, geralmente acadêmica ou professoral, que se comporta de maneira erudita, formal ou pedante, como um catedrático.

Describes a person, typically a scholar or teacher, who is academic, bookish, or pedantic in manner.

1. Scholarly or academic in a pedantic wayC2formalbritish

   Characterized by an excessive or narrow focus on academic details, often in a manner that seems overly intellectual or detached from practical concerns.

   Pedante e acadêmico

   • His donnish manner made the lecture feel more like a seminar for experts.
   • She had a donnish obsession with obscure historical facts.
   • The professor's donnish approach to the topic alienated the general audience.

   Sinônimosacademicbookishdryeruditeintellectualivory towerpedanticprofessorialscholarlystudiousstuffy

   Antônimospracticalunscholarly