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academic

adjective
variants: also academical

Synonyms and Antonyms of academic

1 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 of academic

educational, intellectual, scholarly, scholastic
Words Related to academic

bookish, donnish, geeky, nerdish, nerdy, pedagogical (also pedagogic), pedantic, professorial, tweedy

curricular

educative, instructive

collegiate, graduate, postgraduate
Near Antonyms of academic

cocurricular, extracurricular

noncollegiate
Antonyms of academic

nonacademic, noneducational, unacademic, unscholarly

2 very learned or educated but inexperienced in practical matters

  • academic thinkers who have no understanding of realpolitik
Synonyms of academic

ivory-tower, ivory-towered, ivory-towerish
Words Related to academic

cerebral, eggheaded, highbrow, intellectual
Near Antonyms of academic

astute, canny, clear-sighted, hardheaded, hard-nosed, knowing, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, tough-minded

3 existing only as an assumption or speculation

  • your arguments are merely academic—such a worst-case scenario is unlikely to ever occur
Synonyms of academic

conjectural, hypothetical, speculative, suppositional, theoretical (also theoretic)
Words Related to academic

alleged, assumed, presumed, presupposed, proposed, supposed, unproved, unproven, untested

debatable, moot

abstract, conceptual, intellectual, metaphysical

nonclinical, nonpractical

nonempirical
Near Antonyms of academic

clinical, practical

concrete, defined, definite, distinct

attested, authenticated, confirmed, demonstrated, established, proven, substantiated, tested, time-tested, validated, verified

empirical (also empiric), nonspeculative, nontheoretical, observational
Antonyms of academic

actual, factual, real

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