See academic in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters:
bookish, donnish, formalistic, inkhorn, literary, pedantic, pedantical, scholastic. See attitude, flexible, teachConcerned primarily with theories rather than practical matters:
abstract, speculative, theoretic, theoretical. See thoughts
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