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.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Academic \Ac`a*dem"ic\, n.
1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a
Platonist. --Hume.
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2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an
academician.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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: donnish, pedantic]
n : an educator who works at a college or university [syn: academician,
faculty member]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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