Adjective: mookish
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more mookish |
| Superlative | most mookish |
Sample Sentences
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He drops the phrase my vision a lot, although he hasn't quite defined it beyond wanting to be huge. But despite this and his more than slightly mookish image, Durst is extremely down-home friendly (he was raised in the deep South) and obsessed with pleasing his fans, even if it means playing the clown. [1999 August, Zev Borow, “How to Succeed in Bizness...by Really, Really Trying”, in Spin, pages 97–98:]
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The small hovels and junkyards outside Basra look like a Star Wars set: I'm waiting for a bunch of mookish little guys to attack us with sticks, but instead we find two guys pushing handcarts loaded with rolls of heavy power cable along the side of the highway. [2005, David Enders, Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation, The University of Michigan Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 62:]
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The first is the “mookish,” pot smoking, dimwit movie character type or moron in a beer commercial. [2014, Kevin Mcconaghy, Hot Fudge Sundaes for Breakfast: With One Reason Not to Hurl Myself Off of the Roof of an Atlantic City Casino Parking Garage, Lulu, →ISBN:]
Adjectives inflected like mookish
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From mook (“a disagreeable or incompetent person”) + -ish.