Word Study
donnish
OXFORD DICTIONARY
donnish, adj. like or resembling a college don, esp. in supposed pedantry.
Derivative
donnishly adv. donnishness n.
THESAURUS
donnish
academic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, bookish, booky, devoted to studies, diligent, dryasdust, inkhorn, literary, mandarin, owlish, pedagogic, pedantic, preceptorial, professorial, professorlike, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, studious, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tutorialFor further exploring for "donnish" in Webster Dictionary Online