Academic Synonyms and Antonyms

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Referring to learned matters
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. scholastic
  2. erudite
  3. scholarly
  4. dryasdust
  5. graduate-professional
  6. interscholastic
  7. owlish
  8. professorlike
  9. schoolmasterish
  10. schoolteacherish
  11. teacherish
Of philosophic interest, but having little practical importance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. formalistic
  2. pedantic
  3. donnish
  4. hypothetical
  5. theoretical
  6. literary
  7. speculative
  8. scholastic
  9. bookish
  10. collegiate
  11. conjectural
  12. didactic
  13. inkhorn
  14. doctrinaire
  15. interdisciplinary
  16. learned
  17. lettered
  18. platonic
  19. pedantical
  20. postulatory
  21. professorial
  22. scholarly
  23. schoolmasterly
  24. suppositional
  25. schoolmistressy
  26. teacherlike
  27. teachy
Antonyms:
  1. ignorant
  2. practical
  3. simple
  4. ordinary
  5. untaught
  6. plain
Of philosophic interest, but having little practical importance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. speculative
  2. formalistic
  3. abstract
  4. hypothetical
  5. theoretic
  6. theoretical
Scholar or university/college teacher
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. academician
  2. academe
  3. academia
  4. academy
  5. bookish
  6. classic
  7. collegiate
  8. colloquium
  9. educated
  10. erudite
  11. formal
  12. ivory-tower
  13. learned
  14. pedantic
  15. quodlibetic
  16. scholarly
  17. booky
  18. school
  19. classroom
  20. seminar
  21. teacher
  22. theoretical
  23. unreal
  24. faculty member
  25. schoolmastering
  26. teachery
Antonyms:
  1. ignoramus

Words Related to Academic

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Academic Sentence Examples

  • Quinn is our age but he jumped two school grades on academic excellence.

  • There are large numbers of private schools, in art, music and academic studies.

  • After a year of academic life he tried business again, but in 1840 he gave it up finally and returned to college.

  • Academic studies were, however, not suited to his active and adventurous character.

  • It is remarkable that systematic instruction in the theory and practice of chemistry only received earnest attention in our academic institutions during the opening decades of the 19th century.

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