Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

notebookish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: note-book-ish
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.

Example Sentences

"In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish."
"So it's not merely that Ioannou is using notebookish, intellectually inert, ashen-phrased poems to secure her insights about poetry; she's also using the face-value ideas of prosody to launder mediocre Canadian poetry into art."

Etymology

From notebook + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: notebook

Inflected Forms

more notebookish (comparative) most notebookish (superlative)

Questions

What does notebookish mean?: Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
Where does notebookish come from?: From notebook + -ish.

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