textbook

Forms

1.A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

1.Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
2.Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
- It seemed too textbook, too talk-showish, but it was true.
- Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook, its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic..
- Involuntarily it is practiced all the time, for instance when Shylock at the beginning of the trial describes himself as a very textbook example of a very bad and very common illness.
3.Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
- Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.
4.Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.
- He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation.
- So a lot of women will be very textbook if something meets the definition of sexual harassment, whereas a lot of men are more laissez-faire.

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From text + book.