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bookly.

Of or pertaining to books; literary.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to books; literary.

  2. Learned from books; bookish; by-the-book.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English *bocli, from Old English bōclīċ (“of or belonging to a book, scientific, biblical, scriptural”); equivalent to book + -ly. Cognate with Danish boglig (“bookish”), Swedish boklig (“bookish, literary”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.