scholastic

[ skuh-las-tik ]

/ skəˈlæs tɪk /

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adjective Also scho·las·ti·cal.

of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.

of or relating to secondary education or schools: a scholastic meet.

pedantic.

of or relating to the medieval schoolmen.

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter) a schoolman, a disciple of the schoolmen, or an adherent of scholasticism.

a pedantic person.

Roman Catholic Church. a student in a scholasticate.

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Origin of scholastic

1590–1600; <Latin scholasticus<Greek scholastikós studious, learned, derivative of scholázein to be at leisure to study. See school¹, -tic

OTHER WORDS FROM scholastic

scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverban·ti·scho·las·tic, adjective, nounan·ti·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverbhy·per·scho·las·tic, adjective

hy·per·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverbnon·scho·las·tic, adjectivenon·scho·las·ti·cal, adjectivenon·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverbpost·scho·las·tic, adjectivepre·scho·las·tic, adjectivepro·scho·las·tic, adjectivepseu·do·scho·las·tic, adjectivepseu·do·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverbqua·si-scho·las·tic, adjectivequa·si-scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverbsem·i·scho·las·tic, adjectivesem·i·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverbun·scho·las·tic, adjectiveun·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby scholastic

scholar, scholarch, scholarly, scholarship, scholar's mate, scholastic, Scholastic Aptitude Test, scholasticate, scholasticism, scholiast, scholium

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How to use scholastic in a sentence

He ultimately thought he had outgrown scholastic competition.
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As peers stacked their schedules with ambitious scholastic extracurriculars, Calandrelli maintained good grades and did activities she loved but, in her words, “wasn’t very good at.”
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I had an idea for a movie and I had a meeting with Scholastic Publishing because they have a movie division.
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“There was a nice music to his writing,” says Lee Kravitz, his longtime editor at Scholastic and then at Parade.
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The scholastic pitches finished, the campers returned to their doll designs.
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Museum shows about collectors are usually either scholastic social history or obvious sucking-up to future donors.
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This study associates higher body mass with lower scholastic achievement.
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We have seen enough elsewhere of the multiplication of Commentaries on the Sentences of the Lombard and other scholastic works.
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At these early types of Poor Law schools the children received both scholastic and industrial training.
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The mass of newspaper readers are not, in a scholastic sense, well-educated persons.
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His real education, as distinct from his scholastic one, had been immensely advanced thereby.
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions
It is not the purpose of this volume to offer a mere textbook or a scholastic essay on historical events.
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British Dictionary definitions for scholastic

scholastic

/ (skəˈlæstɪk) /

adjective

of, relating to, or befitting schools, scholars, or education

pedantic or precise

(often capital) characteristic of or relating to the medieval Schoolmen

noun

a student or pupil

a person who is given to quibbling or logical subtleties; pedant

(often capital) a disciple or adherent of scholasticism; Schoolman

a Jesuit student who is undergoing a period of probation prior to commencing his theological studies
the status and position of such a student

a formalist in art

Derived forms of scholastic

scholastically, adverb

Word Origin for scholastic

C16: via Latin from Greek skholastikos devoted to learning, ultimately from skholē school 1

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