academic
of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution: academic requirements.
pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question;an academic discussion of a matter already decided.
learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.
acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.
Academic, of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.
a student or teacher at a college or university.
a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
Academic, a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.
Origin of academic
1synonym study For academic
Other words for academic
Other words from academic
- an·ti·ac·a·dem·ic, adjective, noun
- in·ter·ac·a·dem·ic, adjective
- non·ac·a·dem·ic, adjective, noun
- pro·ac·a·dem·ic, adjective
- pseu·do·ac·a·dem·ic, adjective
- qua·si-ac·a·dem·ic, adjective
- sem·i·ac·a·dem·ic, adjective
- sub·ac·a·dem·ic, adjective
- un·ac·a·dem·ic, adjective
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How to use academic in a sentence
We knew that many academics today would consider our mission naïve.
American Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years | Jedediah Purdy | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe kept servants and, evidently, three slaves, and entertained academics and philosophers in an elite salon.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun | Katie Baker | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe media and academics love to portray these voters as the typical independent when they represent less than half of them.
Yes, Independent Swing Voters Are Real. And May Decide Who Wins Elections | Linda Killian | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBreman kept calling doctors and academics, but there were no answers to be found.
It would be an immediate object of, as academics often put it, “contestation.”
We've Got Bigger Problems Than a Confederate Flag | John McWhorter | August 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Tully, in his "Academics," introduces Varro himself giving us some light concerning the scope and design of those works.
Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals | John DrydenThey mean the realities of liberty and not the academics of theory.
The Art of Public Speaking | Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg EsenweinIf the sophisms of Pyrrho and of the Academics are what annoys (troubles), we must apply the remedy to them.
Margaret was the younger, somewhat delicate daughter of a family of rather strident academics.
Turn About Eleanor | Ethel M. KelleyI noticed this wound very briefly and it was a matter of academics as to how he sustained the wound.
Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for academic
/ (ˌækəˈdɛmɪk) /
belonging or relating to a place of learning, esp a college, university, or academy
of purely theoretical or speculative interest: an academic argument
excessively concerned with intellectual matters and lacking experience of practical affairs
(esp of a schoolchild) having an aptitude for study
conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional: an academic painter
relating to studies such as languages, philosophy, and pure science, rather than applied, technical, or professional studies
a member of a college or university
Derived forms of academic
- academically, adverb
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