All academic synonyms
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A a noun academic
- lecturer — a person who lectures.
- professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
- student — a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil: a student at Yale.
- academician — An academician is a member of an academy, usually one which has been formed to improve or maintain standards in a particular field.
- tutor — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- pupil — the expanding and contracting opening in the iris of the eye, through which light passes to the retina.
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- instructor — a person who instructs; teacher.
- teacher — a person who teaches or instructs, especially as a profession; instructor.
- researcher — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- don — Donald Eugene ("Don") 1936–95, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
adjective academic
- educational — pertaining to education.
- school — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- college — A college is an institution where students study after they have left school.
- university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- learning — knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
- collegiate — Collegiate means belonging or relating to a college or to college students.
- intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- scholarly — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
- bookish — Someone who is bookish spends a lot of time reading serious books.
- learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- studious — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- literary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- moot — open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: Whether that was the cause of their troubles is a moot point.
- theoretical — given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.
- abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
- hypothetical — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- philosophy — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- closet — A closet is a piece of furniture with doors at the front and shelves inside, which is used for storing things.
- conjectural — A statement that is conjectural is based on information that is not certain or complete.
- formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- notional — pertaining to or expressing a notion or idea.
- donnish — resembling or characteristic of a university don; bookish; pedantic.