Scholastic Synonyms

skə-lăstĭk
Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. academic
  2. literary
  3. bookish
  4. donnish
  5. formalistic
  6. educational
  7. inkhorn
  8. learned
  9. pedantic
  10. pedantical
  11. lettered
  12. versed
Having great learning; said of people
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. lettered
A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pedant
  2. bookworm

Words Related to Scholastic

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Scholastic Sentence Examples

  • The scholastic mysticism was, for the most part, practical and psychological in character.

  • Here the Scholastic philosophy comes into conflict with Aristotle's doctrine of the eternity of the world.

  • At the end of October 1785 he closed a scholastic career which had been creditable but not brilliant.

  • He did something for the furtherance of learning by establishing schools in every town and by giving privileges to serfs who adopted a scholastic life.

  • The history of medicine in the period now opening is closely combined with the history of scholastic philosophy.

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