UNACADEMIC Synonyms: 152 Similar and Opposite Words

unacademic

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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

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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

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

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Not just a popular student extracurricular, mariachi culture is a staple and deep-seated form of entertainment across Las Vegas.

— Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Parents also mentioned frustration with school leadership, limited extracurricular activities and inadequate special education services.

— Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of extracurricular

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Some people in the White House treated Jackie as a cipher, ignorant of almost everything happening.

— Laurence Leamer, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
And in a world increasingly populated by people who are absolutely certain that everyone who disagrees with them is either ignorant or immoral, our universities could use considerably more of all three.

— Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 13 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

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