Synonyms of graduate

graduate

adjective

as in postgraduate

of or relating to schooling done after earning a bachelor's degree

The team is conducting graduate research on the effects of climate change.

She plans to begin graduate school in the fall.

Related Words

• postgraduate
• collegiate
• educative
• educational
• scholarly
• pedagogical
• professorial
• bookish
• nerdy
• curricular
• academic
• geeky
• donnish
• tweedy
• pedantic
• instructive
• nerdish
• scholastic
• intellectual

Dissimilar Words

• nonacademic
• noneducational
• extracurricular
• noncollegiate
• unscholarly
• cocurricular
• unacademic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of graduate

This year’s graduate runway show brought together the work of 10 graduating designers, including Ao Dongwei, Chen Qianyu, Chen Xinyan, Chen Yikun, Chu Jiayu, Liu Ziqi, Natlie Sung, Qin Ruiyang, Sun Jiaxue and Wang Yanfei. — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026

In 2022, Rasberry took on an additional position at Stanford as associate vice provost for graduate education, according to his LinkedIn. — Jenny Haward, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026

The search for configurations in these regions would take two more minds — Kawarabayashi’s graduate students, Yuta Inoue and Atsuyuki Miyashita — and months of computing time. — Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026

When breaking down the total enrollment numbers, 26,306 are undergraduate students, 3,817 are graduate students and 649 are professional (veterinary medicine) students. — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 10 Sep. 2026