Translation for "donnish" to spanish

Donnish

adjective

• erudito
• pedantesco

Translation examples

erudito adjective

was a donnish, studious man, precise, respectable and dull.
era un hombre estudioso de aspecto erudito, meticuloso, respetable y triste.

Alec has decided to mimic Control’s donnish bray:
Alec ha decidido imitar el tono erudito y refinado de Control:

The cultists—the collectors and fans—would not have shelled out appalling sums for, or written hundreds of thousands of donnish words devoted to, the early collaborations of Kavalier & Clay.
Los coleccionistas y los fans no habrían desembolsado sumas atroces por las primeras colaboraciones de Kavalier y Clay ni les habrían dedicado cientos de miles de palabras eruditas.

There were the shapes of two men standing at ease, but I had not seen their faces, could not see any face but the worried, donnish face behind the lighter.
Estaban las figuras de dos hombres de pie en posición de descanso, pero yo no había visto sus caras, no podía ver otra cara que aquélla anhelante y erudita de detrás del encendedor.

She later explained, or made up the explanation, that she felt she was not only competing with all the students in her year, but also with her donnish parents, who took her success for granted and only paid attention to her failures.
Luego explicaría, o se inventaría, que se sentía como si no solo compitiera con todos los estudiantes de su curso, sino también con sus eruditos padres, que daban por sentado el éxito de su hija y solo se fijaban en sus fracasos.

The archiepiscopal residence at Addington, in Kent, was nobly proportioned and comfortably appointed, and its atmosphere of donnish Anglicanism was soothing to his bruised spirit – the very words ‘archiepiscopal residence’ sounded like a benediction as he pronounced them silently to himself.
La residencia arzobispal en Addington, Kent, era de nobles dimensiones y de mobiliario confortable, y su atmósfera de anglicanismo erudito fue relajadora para su espíritu lastimado: las mismas palabras «residencia arzobispal» le sonaban como una bendición cuando las pronunciaba en silencio.