unacademic

adjective

Definition of unacademicnext
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as in nonacademic

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as in unintellectual

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Recent Examples of unacademic Lymie is slight of build, shy and bookish, while Spud is athletic, outgoing and unacademic. — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021 All of those Andys exist — sometimes simultaneously over a single paragraph — in Blake Gopnik’s Warhol, a frank, gossipy, but not unacademic chronicle of one of the 20th century’s most foundational and confounding figures. — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unacademic
  1. nonacademic
  2. unintellectual
  3. noneducational
  4. nonintellectual
  5. extracurricular
  6. ignorant
  7. uninformed
  8. uneducated
Adjective
  • The single largest contribution that Suffolk made to my life, though, was strictly nonacademic.
    — David Shribman, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2026
  • These sessions can focus on nonacademic life skills, like public speaking and entrepreneurship, as well as art and physical education.
    — Gerald K. LeTendre, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
Definition of nonacademic
Adjective
  • In the novel, Julia is a highly sexualized, unintellectual figure who simply hates the control of the state, but the Sichuan University students turned her into a secret Party agent.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
Definition of unintellectual
Adjective
  • Though digital learning tools are still widely used, bans on noneducational tech in school are now commonplace.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 28 Aug. 2026
  • But the premise is more or less an excuse to make monologue jokes, which Bargatze did about everything from Severance’s confusing story line to the decidedly noneducational programming offered on the Learning Channel.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Definition of noneducational
Adjective
  • Such thumbnail indictments of the nonintellectual masses seemed to stem from Hofstadter’s own mounting sense of political and cultural homelessness in the postwar world.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2020
  • George, meanwhile, grew up in a cheerfully nonintellectual and inclusive household that celebrated Christmas and just about anything involving their son, even Lizzie.
    — Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
Definition of nonintellectual
Adjective
  • Now, students can take courses focused on fields such as sports analytics, media, law and marketing while exploring a variety of extracurricular opportunities.
    — Nick Caloway, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Congratulations to the happy couple for both their extracurricular activity on the set and for extending hope for others.
    — Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of extracurricular
Adjective
  • Understandably, Penn struggles to hold these disparate points of focus together with a performance that vacillates between disarmingly dopey and almost willfully ignorant of the realities of the 2000s media landscape.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Some people in the White House treated Jackie as a cipher, ignorant of almost everything happening.
    — Laurence Leamer, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of ignorant
Adjective
  • Reached again after the claims about Trejo became public, the worker remained skeptical that the principal cast could have been so uninformed.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Castro notes that 45% of respondents to Latino Community Foundation polls said they hadn’t been contacted by any candidate or party, which means many potential Hispanic voters remain untouched and uninformed this election cycle.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of uninformed
Adjective
  • Ira, in my very uneducated opinion, there are eight teams in the East that could finish first, and any of those eight could be eighth.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
  • As a peripheral community grows around them, this lawless terrain is suddenly subject to boundaries and contracts and taxes; both uneducated and illiterate, Isak and Inger are ill prepared for such societal evolution.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of uneducated

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“Unacademic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unacademic. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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