Synonyms for bluestocking
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : bloo-stok-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbluˌstɒk ɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for bluestocking
- able
- academic
- academician
- advanced
- aesthetic
- appreciative
- au courant
- blue-stocking
- bluestocking
- bookworm
- brain
- chivalrous
- courteous
- distingue
- doctrinaire
- dogmatist
- egghead
- Einstein
- elegant
- elite
- gallant
- geek
- genius
- high-class
- highbrow
- illuminato
- informed
- intellectual
- intelligentsia
- know-it-all
- lettered
- liberal
- literary
- literato
- longhair
- mannerly
- methodologist
- noble
- pedagogue
- pedigreed
- philosopher
- polished
- polite
- privileged
- purebred
- refined
- rocket scientist
- sage
- savant
- scholar
- scholarly
- sensitive
- sophisticated
- tasteful
- thinker
- tolerant
- traveled
- understanding
- up-to-date
- upper-class
- urbane
- versed
- waling encyclopedia
- well-born
- well-bred
- well-informed
- whiz
Définition of bluestocking
Origin :- also blue-stocking, 1790, derisive word for a woman considered too learned, traces to a London literary salon founded c.1750 by Elizabeth Montagu on the Parisian model, featuring intellectual discussion instead of card games, and in place of ostentatious evening attire, simple dress, including Benjamin Stillingfleet's blue-gray tradesman's hose which he wore in place of gentleman's black silk, hence the term, first applied in derision to the whole set by Admiral Boscawen. None of the ladies wore blue stockings. Borrowed by the neighbors in loan-translations, cf. French bas-bleu, Dutch blauwkous, German Blaustrumpf.
- As in blue-blooded : adj aristocratic
- As in cultured : adj well-bred, experienced
- As in pedant : noun formalist
- As in egghead : noun intellectual
- As in highbrow : noun intellectual, very smart person
- The don and the bluestocking have to live, so have the cowboy and the cook.
- Extract from : « Race Improvement : or, Eugenics : a Little Book on a Great Subject » by La Reine Helen Baker
- "Men do so hate a bluestocking," she said once pensively to her friend Emily.
- Extract from : « Why Joan? » by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
- Dear Bluestocking, you really are— murmured the Gentle Lady.
- Extract from : « Modern marriage and how to bear it » by Maud Churton Braby
- This was the most brilliant moment in the public career of our bluestocking.
- Extract from : « Some Diversions of a Man of Letters » by Edmund William Gosse
- I am not going to caricature a bluestocking, but to point out one or two real dangers.
- Extract from : « Three Addresses to Girls at School » by James Maurice Wilson
- If mine were Roman instead of retrouss, I would probably have been a bluestocking and respected by Mr. Ormsby.
- Extract from : « Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905 » by Various
- "No, now that she has become a bluestocking she has finally renounced her former infatuations," he told himself.
- Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy
- Though a Bluestocking, her praise was usually generously bestowed; she knew well how to flatter.
- Extract from : « Anna Seward » by Stapleton Martin
- This foible led an unusually energetic Boston bluestocking to refer to him in a caustic style on one occasion as “effeminate.”
- Extract from : « Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers, Vol. I » by Various
- A bluestocking and a sansculotte (not a very usual combination), she was also a woman of the very latest cry in frocks.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 » by Various
Antonyms for bluestocking
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