Unacademic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not academic.

    "Some unacademic enthusiastic upright soul called it a pear because it happened to remind him of a pear, though it is really a cactus-berry."

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"Some unacademic enthusiastic upright soul called it a pear because it happened to remind him of a pear, though it is really a cactus-berry."

Etymology

From un- + academic.

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