ALL meanings of academic
ac·a·dem·ic
A a - adjective academic Academic is used to describe things that relate to the work done in schools, colleges, and universities, especially work which involves studying and reasoning rather than practical or technical skills. 3
- adjective academic Academic is used to describe things that relate to schools, colleges, and universities. 3
- adjective academic Academic is used to describe work, or a school, college, or university, that places emphasis on studying and reasoning rather than on practical or technical skills. 3
- adjective academic Someone who is academic is good at studying. 3
- countable noun academic An academic is a member of a university or college who teaches or does research. 3
- adjective academic You can say that a discussion or situation is academic if you think it is not important because it has no real effect or cannot happen. 3
- adjective academic belonging or relating to a place of learning, esp a college, university, or academy 3
- adjective academic of purely theoretical or speculative interest 3
- adjective academic excessively concerned with intellectual matters and lacking experience of practical affairs 3
- adjective academic (esp of a schoolchild) having an aptitude for study 3
- adjective academic conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional 3
- adjective academic relating to studies such as languages, philosophy, and pure science, rather than applied, technical, or professional studies 3
- noun academic a member of a college or university 3
- adjective academic of colleges, universities, etc.; scholastic; scholarly 3
- adjective academic having to do with general or liberal rather than technical or vocational education 3
- adjective academic of or belonging to an academy of scholars, artists, etc. 3
- adjective academic following fixed rules or conventions; pedantic or formalistic 3
- adjective academic merely theoretical; having no direct practical application 3
- noun academic a teacher or student at a college or university 3
- adjective academic of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements. 1
- adjective academic pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics. 1
- adjective academic theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided. 1
- adjective academic learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality. 1
- adjective academic conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting. 1
- adjective academic acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry. 1
- noun academic Of or relating to education and scholarship. 1
- adjective academic (initial capital letter) of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy. 1
- noun academic a student or teacher at a college or university. 1
- noun academic a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts. 1
- noun academic (initial capital letter) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy. 1
- noun academic academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics. 1
- adjective academic of school 1
- adjective academic theoretical 1
- adjective academic courses, skills: intellectual 1
- noun academic professor 1
- adjective academic intellectual, studious 1
- noun academic (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist. 0
- noun academic A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. 0
- noun academic A member of the Academy; an academician. 0
- noun academic (plural only) Academic dress; academicals. 0
- noun academic (plural only) Academic studies. 0
- adjective academic Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy. 0
- adjective academic Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization. 0
- adjective academic Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to practical or vocational; having no practical importance. 0
- adjective academic Having a love of or aptitude for learning. 0
- adjective academic (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic. 0
- adjective academic So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness. 0
- adjective academic Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius. 0