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Academic

//ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk//

Synonyms for "academic" (85 found)

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Informal (6)

Noun, verb, slang(1 words)

style

Adj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

closet

Adj, noun, slang(3 words)

mandarin notional collegiate

Adj, slang(1 words)

schoolteachery

General use (79)

Adj, noun, verb(6 words)

abstract graduate moot recondite armchair preschool

Noun, verb(3 words)

school purport schoolmastering

Adj, name, noun(2 words)

ideal utopian

Adj, noun(14 words)

professional scholastic visionary imaginary intellectual dryasdust hypothetical educational tutorial conjectural erudite postgraduate intramural preceptorial

Noun(6 words)

architecture scholar university academician classroom faculty member

Adjective(39 words)

pedantic arid diligent speculative idealistic studious impractical chimerical literary theoretical unrealistic rabbinic bookish deductive donnish professorial pedagogical teachy extramural unpractical

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owlish interdisciplinary hypothetic booky postulatory schoolish pedagogic interscholastic book-learned teachery schoolteacherish teacherlike schoolmasterly schoolmasterish schoolmistressy professorlike teacherish cross-disciplinary ivory-tower

Adjective(2 words)

pedantic donnish

Adj, verb(2 words)

supposed lettered

Adj, name, verb(1 words)

learned

Adj, adv(1 words)

scholarly

devoted to studies graduate-professional schoolmasterlike

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