academic
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
academic
adj 1: associated with academia or an academy; "the academic
curriculum"; "academic gowns"
2: hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an
immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an
academic question"
3: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially
its trivial aspects [syn: {academic}, {donnish}, {pedantic}]
n 1: an educator who works at a college or university [syn:
{academician}, {academic}, {faculty member}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Academic \Ac`a*dem"ic\, Academical \Ac`a*dem"ic*al\, a. [L.
academicus: cf. F. acad['e]migue. See {Academy}.]
1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the
Academic sect or philosophy.
[1913 Webster]
2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of
learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction
from scientific. "Academic courses." --Warburton.
"Academical study." --Berkeley.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "academic":
abstract, armchair, book-learned, bookish, booky, chimerical,
classroom, closet, collegiate, conjectural, cross-disciplinary,
devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, erudite,
extramural, graduate, graduate-professional, hypothetic,
hypothetical, ideal, idealistic, imaginary, impractical,
interdisciplinary, interscholastic, intramural, ivory-tower,
learned, lettered, mandarin, moot, notional, owlish, pedagogic,
pedagogical, pedantic, postgraduate, postulatory, preceptorial,
preschool, professional, professorial, professorlike, rabbinic,
scholarly, scholastic, school, schoolish, schoolmastering,
schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy,
schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, speculative, studious,
teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, theoretical, tutorial,
university, unpractical, unrealistic, utopian, visionary
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