Academicked

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made academic; divorced from reality and made abstruse or pedantic. derogatory, nonce-word, not-comparable

    "Where much contemporary poetry has either declared craft obsolete, become so avante-garde as to resemble bad French experimental films from the 1930s, or become academicked to death, feminist poetry, perhaps because of the close interconnection between its artists and audience, has continued to show vigor, life, and determination."

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"Where much contemporary poetry has either declared craft obsolete, become so avante-garde as to resemble bad French experimental films from the 1930s, or become academicked to death, feminist poetry, perhaps because of the close interconnection between its artists and audience, has continued to show vigor, life, and determination."

Etymology

From academic + -ed.

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