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

In 2020, graduate medical education successfully transitioned into a single accreditation system under the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). — Abigail MacKenzie, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026

Due to federal funding cuts, universities have slashed the number of graduate students who receive financial support for their work. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

Will Halm is a graduate student in political science at the University of California Berkeley. — Susan Ostermann, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026

Today, it’s known as the largest producer of Black engineers at both the undergraduate and graduate level. — Asia Alexander, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026