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Another word for academic

Adjective

  1. Characterized by a narrow concern for book learning and formal rules, without knowledge or experience of practical matters

    2. See also:

    teach

    flexible

    attitude

  2. Concerned primarily with theories rather than practical matters

    3. See also:

    thoughts

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Another word for academic

Modifier

  1. Referring to learned matters

    2. See also:

    learned

    educational

  2. Of philosophic interest, but having little practical importance

    3. See also:

    theoretical

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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.

  • in 1897, received the Order of Merit in 1902, and was awarded many honours, academic and other.

  • 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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