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academic
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of ACADEMIC
1
of or relating to schooling or learning especially at an advanced level <“If you spent more time in academic pursuits and less time in social ones, you could easily make good grades,” the dean told Valerie>
Related Words bookish, donnish, geeky, nerdish, nerdy, pedagogical (also pedagogic), pedantic, professorial, tweedy; curricular; educative, instructive; collegiate, graduate, postgraduate
2
very learned or educated but inexperienced in practical matters <academic thinkers who have no understanding of realpolitik>
Near Antonyms astute, canny, clear-sighted, hardheaded, hard-nosed, knowing, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, tough-minded
3
existing only as an assumption or speculation <your arguments are merely academic—such a worst-case scenario is unlikely to ever occur>
Related Words alleged, assumed, presumed, presupposed, proposed, supposed, unproved, unproven, untested; debatable, moot; abstract, conceptual, intellectual, metaphysical; nonclinical, nonpractical; nonempirical
Near Antonyms clinical, practical; concrete, defined, definite, distinct; attested, authenticated, confirmed, demonstrated, established, proven, substantiated, tested, time-tested, validated, verified; empirical (also empiric), nonspeculative, nontheoretical, observational
Variants of ACADEMIC
academic also academical
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