academic
Meaning of academic
adjective
- relating to education and scholarship.
academic achievement
he had no academic qualifications
- not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest.
the debate has been largely academic
- a teacher or scholar in a university or other institute of higher education.
the EU offers grants to academics for research on approved projects
mid 16th century: from French académique or medieval Latin academicus, from academia (see academy).
Information about academic
- The plural form of academic is: academics.
- Languages in which academic is used:
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Hyphenation of academic
aca-demic
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- academic is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
academic synonyms
Meaning world:
Meaning donnish:
Meaning academician:
Meaning relating to the provision of education:
Meaning of or concerning schools and education:
Meaning intended or used for teaching; educational:
Meaning relating to teaching:
Meaning (of a Xhosa) educated and westernized:
Meaning an educational institution or establishment, in particular one providing higher education or specialized professional or vocational training:
Meaning belonging or relating to a college or its students:
Meaning a high-level educational institution in which students study for degrees and academic research is done:
Meaning involving or relating to serious academic study:
Meaning spending a lot of time studying or reading:
Meaning concerned with literature as a profession:
Meaning relating to the intellect:
Meaning quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent:
Meaning having or showing great knowledge or learning:
Meaning showing, requiring, or characterized by learning; scholarly:
Meaning resulting from or having had a good education:
Meaning characterized by refined taste and manners and good education:
Meaning (of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying:
Meaning intellectual or rarefied in taste:
Meaning of the cerebrum of the brain:
Meaning demanding or characterized by careful consideration or application:
Meaning having or showing intelligence:
Meaning formally educated:
Meaning based on or calculated through theory rather than experience or practice:
Meaning relating to or based on mental concepts:
Meaning existing as or based on a suggestion, estimate, or theory; not existing in reality:
Meaning relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence:
Meaning not sensible or realistic:
Meaning supposed but not necessarily real or true:
Meaning engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge:
Meaning based on or involving conjecture:
Meaning form an opinion or supposition about (something) on the basis of incomplete information:
Meaning generally considered or reputed to be:
Meaning lasting for an unknown or unstated length of time:
Meaning existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence:
Meaning of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning:
Meaning affecting or concerning all or most people or things; widespread:
Meaning not adapted for use or action; not sensible or realistic:
Meaning not realistic:
Meaning not connected with or relevant to something:
Meaning not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome:
Meaning based on assumption rather than fact:
Meaning relating to the formation of ideas or concepts:
Meaning a specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities:
Meaning a person who gives lectures, especially as an occupation at a university or college of higher education:
Meaning a university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at Oxford or Cambridge:
Meaning a person who teaches, especially in a school:
Meaning a person who provides instruction or education; a teacher:
Meaning a person who teaches something:
Meaning a person who trains people or animals:
Meaning a private teacher, typically one who teaches a single pupil or a very small group:
Meaning a university academic of the highest rank; the holder of a university chair:
Meaning a man or boy:
Meaning a person who thinks deeply and seriously:
Meaning an intellectual or literary woman:
Meaning a highly academic or studious person; an intellectual:
Meaning a person who enjoys reading:
Meaning a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one:
academic antonyms
Meaning of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas:
Translation of academic
- Portuguese: filosófico, acadêmico, impalpável, intátil, intangível, intocável, académico, universitário
- French: abstrait, académique, universitaire
- Spanish: abstracto, abstracta, académico, académica, universitario, universitaria
- German: abstrakt, akademisch, wissenschaftlich
- Italian: astratto, accademico, universitario
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