academic

Meaning

Adj

1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
3. In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
4. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
5. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
6. Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
7. Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
8. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.

Noun

1. (capitalized, usually) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
2. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
3. A member of the Academy; an academician.
4. (archaic) A student in a college.
5. (plural, plural-only) Academic dress; academicals.
6. (plural, plural-only) Academic studies.

Synonyms

scholar

student

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scholastic

undergraduate

academical

academician

theoretical

learned

donnish

pedantic

educated

abstract

scientific

scholarly

formalistic

conventional

faculty member

lettered

literary

collegiate

moot

academist

bookish

preceptor

professor

pupil

pure

scholastical

school

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schoolchild

schoolmaster

science

scientist

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speculative

teacher

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technical

theoretic

tutor

university

university graduate

unpractical

untouchable

educatee

university student

knowledge

schoraly

theory-based

Student

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academically

arid

coach

collegian

demonstrator

didactic

disciple

doctrinaire

don

dropout

educator

futile

impalpable

intangible

intellectual

jejune

learner

mathematical

notional

philosophical

pointless

preachy

Translations

académique

student

universitaire

académico

academisch

akademisch

xwendekar

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academicus

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/

Etymology

From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) or Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy.