Term Gallery logo

Meanings of bookworm in inglés

portugués
pedante
catalán
pedant

A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.

        pedante
        Sinónimos
        Examples for "scholastic"
        Examples for "scholastic"
        1
        Let the scholastic seniors of this great nation think whatever they wanted.
        Timescape
        2
        The following table shows the relative scholastic standing of smokers and non-smokers:
        How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
        3
        He has read neither the classical nor the scholastic interpreters of mysticism.
        Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
        4
        Other scholastic honors fell to him in due course and good measure.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        5
        Pronunciation is scholastic, relating to the word accent and the vowel sound.
        Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
        1
        Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.
        The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
        2
        Refined, cultured, and intelligent, he was also a pedant and a bore.
        The monster of florence
        3
        What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town?
        The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I...
        4
        The pedant-forsuch seemed to be his character in the troupe-bowed his acknowledgments.
        Captain Fracasse
        5
        You cannot speak of Tao to a pedant; his scope is too restricted.
        The Crest-Wave of Evolution / A Course of Lectures in History, G...
        Usage of bookworm in inglés
        1
        I found it in the library, of course, bookworm that I am.
        Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across italy,...
        2
        For the rest, he was a bookworm and revelled in intellectual pursuits.
        A Little Girl in Old Salem
        3
        Magistra, we are facing a bookworm infection unlike any I have known.
        Spellwright
        4
        Old bookworm Fraser does not leave the 'Folly' once in six months.
        A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
        5
        On the gate, the two guards were discussing an ongoing bookworm infection.
        Spellwright
        6
        He did not think much of the commonwealth attorney, a useless bookworm.
        Within an Inch of His Life
        7
        Weiming, the Moller doorman I just told you about, is another bookworm.
        Enigma of China
        8
        His brother hated him for being a bookworm & tormented him constantly.
        The new yorker
        9
        A lifelong bookworm, I've never enjoyed a gay novel in my life.
        The Guardian
        10
        Johnson's father was a bookworm, like his son, rather than a tradesman.
        English Literature for Boys and Girls
        11
        The libraries need every free author to contain the bookworm infection.
        Spellwright
        12
        There is little in the face to suggest the scholar or the bookworm.
        Correggio / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of t...
        13
        By chance, a disspell destroyed most of this bookworm's executive text.
        Spellwright
        14
        Which, when you think of it, is pretty much everything a bookworm needs.
        The South African
        15
        He was a Hebrew and Greek scholar, hut certainly no bookworm.
        The Irish Times
        16
        The bookworm seemed to have found his element among Laranya's lot.
        The skein of lament
        About this term
        More collocations
        Translations for bookworm
        portugués
        pedante
        Bookworm through the time
        Bookworm across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common