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  

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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. Mike Peterson:

   What I'm seeing is, frankly, a return to basics, a return to academic growth and achievement as the benchmarks, and frankly, I think we're trying to – and this is as a board as well – get rid of some of the other distractions which aren’t core academic pursuits.

2. Rachel Dolezal:

   It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.

3. 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.

4. Caroline Heldman:

   Power in colleges has shifted dramatically in recent years to the administrative side, those of us who are tenured need to use our academic freedom because we're the only ones at institutions who have power to speak out when administrations mistreat Know Your.

5. Vinay Menon:

   There was an academic survey about a decade ago that found viewers who watch no news were better informed than those who watched Fox News. This might be hilarious if Fox News wasn't also the most watched cable network in America. Then it's terrifying.