schoolish /ˈskuːlɪʃ/ adjective2 •Of or pertaining to school; scholastic.As a struggling student, Lo was fed up with “schoolish practices” and refused to perform for the sake of pleasing her teachers. — 2010 •Characteristic of school rather than real life; pedantic, pedagogical, etc.Its structure, which could strike one as derived from an arithmetic or geometry lesson, is schoolish, as is its content... — 1987 formsmore schoolish · most schoolish