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academic
[ ak-uh-dem-ik ]
adjective
- of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution:
academic requirements.
- pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
Synonyms: ,
- theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful:
an academic question;
an academic discussion of a matter already decided.
- learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
Synonyms:
- conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional:
academic painting.
- acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university:
academic preparation for the ministry.
- Academic, of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.
noun
- a student or teacher at a college or university.
- a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.:
He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
- Academic, a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
- academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects:
more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.
academic
/ ˌæəˈɛɪ /
adjective
- belonging or relating to a place of learning, esp a college, university, or academy
- of purely theoretical or speculative interest
an academic argument
- excessively concerned with intellectual matters and lacking experience of practical affairs
- (esp of a schoolchild) having an aptitude for study
- conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional
an academic painter
- relating to studies such as languages, philosophy, and pure science, rather than applied, technical, or professional studies
noun
- a member of a college or university
Derived Forms
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
In response to the findings, Harvard pledged to review its academic offerings and admissions policies - a key demand of the White House, which accuses the Ivy League institution of failure to stamp out campus antisemitism.
Among the key elements of the new plan are reconfiguring academic units and professional services, securing more commercial finance and consolidating efficiencies.
Young’s developing a school-based internship program that would offer academic credit and paid experience to local youth, granting access to a world they might otherwise have never stepped into.
The program was most recently targeted by Project 2025, which called for its termination, alleging it was “fraught with scandal and abuse” and had “little or no long-term academic value for children.”
But numerous academic experts and medical professionals believe those moves, while well intended, have been scattershot and insufficient.
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