Entry Word: academic

Function: adjective

Meaning: of or relating to schooling or learning especially at an advanced level <“If you spent more time in academic pursuits and less time in social ones, you could easily make good grades,” the dean told Valerie>

Synonyms educational, scholarly, scholastic

Related Words bookish, pedantic, professorial; curricular; educative, instructive; collegiate, graduate, postgraduate

Near Antonyms extracurricular; noncollegiate

Antonyms nonacademic, unacademic