workbookish

English

Etymology

From workbook +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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.