donnish
adjective
don·nish ˈdä-nish 
: of, relating to, or characteristic of a university don
donnishly adverb
donnishness noun
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions. 
Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018 Word History
First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above
donnish
adjective
as in professorial
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- professorial
- tweedy
- nerdish
- bookish
- pedagogical
- scholastic
- nerdy
- geeky
- pedagogic
- scholarly
- academical
- pedantic
- academic
- intellectual
- educational
- curricular
- instructive
- postgraduate
- collegiate
- educative
- graduate
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonacademic
- noneducational
- extracurricular
- unscholarly
- unacademic
- cocurricular
- noncollegiate