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

School eligibility To get a SoFi student loan, you must be enrolled at least half-time in a degree-seeking or graduate certificate-seeking program at an eligible school. — Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

This includes the seven residence halls for first-year students and the suite-style units and apartments for sophomores, upper-division students and graduate students. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026

At Purdue, for example, international students make up 63% of graduate students in mechanical engineering. — Abigail Boggs, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026

This year, Boutayeb returned in an official capacity, representing Viterbi’s graduate students. — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026