workbookish

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Etymology

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From workbook +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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workbookish (comparative more workbookish, superlative most workbookish)

  1. Characteristic of a workbook.
    • 1994, Raymond S. Moore, Dorothy N. Moore, The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook: A Creative and Stress-Free Approach to Homeschooling, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, Inc., →ISBN, page 106:
      Yet if only the facts of sacred happenings are repeated without the deeper understanding and application of the lessons inherent in the examples given, spiritual study becomes workbookish, dull, lifeless.