academic

Plural: academics

Noun

• A teacher or scholar in a university or college.
• an educator who works at a college or university
• A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
• A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
• A member of the Academy; an academician.
• A student in a college.
• Academic dress; academicals.
• Academic studies.

Adjective

• associated with academia or an academy
  • "the academic curriculum"
  • "academic gowns"

Adjective Satellite

• hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
  • "an academic discussion"
  • "an academic question"
• marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Adj

• Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
• Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
• In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
• Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
• Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
• Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
• Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
• Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
• So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.

Examples

• an academic question
• As an academic, he delighted in playing obscure, scholarly words.
• I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
• I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.
• the academic sect or philosophy
• the distinction is academic

Synonyms

academician, donnish, faculty member, pedantic

Related Words

academia, academical, academically, academically disadvantaged, academicals, academism, academist, academy, scientific

Anagrams of academic