Synonyms for academic
ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪkaca·dem·ic

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1. academician, academic, faculty memberadjective

   an educator who works at a college or university

   Synonyms:
   academician, schoolman, faculty member

   Antonyms:
   unscholarly, applied

2. academicadjective

   associated with academia or an academy

   "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"

   Synonyms:
   donnish, pedantic

   Antonyms:
   unscholarly, applied

3. academicadjective

   hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result

   "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"

   Synonyms:
   donnish, pedantic

   Antonyms:
   unscholarly, applied

4. academic, donnish, pedanticadjective

   marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

   Synonyms:
   donnish, pedantic

   Antonyms:
   unscholarly, applied

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1. scholastic

   Submitted by anonymous on December 15, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. academicadjective

   Synonyms:
   scholastic, literary, lettered

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1. List of paraphrases for "academic":

   university, academy, academics, universitaire, academia, university-based, scholarly, school, scholastic, theoretical, scholars, scolaire, universities, universitaires, educational, teaching, scholar, academician, scientific, university-level, academicians, formal, education

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1. ACADEMIC

   Synonyms:
   Azithromycin in Coronary Artery Disease: Elimination of Myocardial Infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae

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1. Lara Hussain:

   From an academic standpoint, we want our teachers to be familiar with the tools that students will be working on, if we're all familiar with a common device, that results in better outcomes for our students and reduces lost instruction time.

2. Michael Rectenwald:

   Academic freedom: It’s great, as long as you don’t use it.”

3. Rita Redberg:

   I'm from a big academic institution so there's always coverage while I'm gone.

4. Arturo Bris:

   One of the most established facts in academic research is that bank mergers hardly ever work.

5. Swami Krishnananda:

   What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.