academic
adjective
of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution.
unacademic
-
a word derived from
academic.
Example Sentences
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In this engagingly unacademic meditation, a professor of philosophy interweaves Friedrich Nietzsche’s biography with accounts of his own visits to Sils-Maria, in the Swiss Alps, where Nietzsche spent much of his writing life.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
All the moving around meant she came to see herself as unacademic.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2017
But are arguably unacademic opinions—inflammatory falsehoods that have no apparent basis in fact—also covered?
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2016
Professors have been commenting on the at best unacademic and sometimes downright hostile attitude of today’s college students for quite a while.
From Forbes ● Aug. 8, 2014
At the outset, he shared the university scientist’s traditional antipathy to the patent process, so redolent of commercialism and so distinctly unacademic.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
