textbook

1. (literally) Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.Examples: "It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning."; "They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance."; "...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it."literally

2. (figuratively) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.Examples: "All her rebelliousness, her deceit, her folly, her dirty-mindedness—everything has been burned out of her. It was a perfect conversion, a textbook case."; "It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis."; "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..."figuratively

3. (figuratively) Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.Examples: "Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook."figuratively

4. (figuratively) Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.Examples: "He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation."figuratively