donnish
adjective
UKuk/ˈdɒn.ɪʃ/us/ˈdɑː.nɪʃ/intelligent, often in a way that is tooserious:
学究气的He was athin, donnish-looking man in atweedjacketandsandals.他瘦瘦的身材,上身穿粗呢短上衣,脚蹬一双凉鞋,看上去很有点学究气。
Synonyms
academic
pedanticdisapproving
Intelligence
- acuity
- acumen
- agility
- apt
- aptness
- gumption
- highbrow
- horse sense
- imaginative
- imaginatively
- penetrating
- perceptive
- percipient
- perspicacity
- presence of mind
- profundity
- quick-witted
- ready
- resource
- subtlety