Notebookish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Notebookish is an adjective meaning Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
Meaning
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include workbookish, college-ruled, cookbookish, yearbookish, looseleaf, open-notes.
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