'academic' definitions:
Definition of 'academic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Associated with academia or an academy; "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"
adjective
Hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"
adjective
Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects [syn: academic, donnish, pedantic]
noun
An educator who works at a college or university [syn: academician, academic, faculty member]
Synonyms of 'academic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- armchair,
- book-learned,
- bookish,
- booky,
- chimerical,
- classroom,
- closet,
- collegiate,
- conjectural,
- cross-disciplinary,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- erudite,
- extramural,
- graduate,
- graduate-professional,
- hypothetic,
- hypothetical,
- ideal,
- idealistic,
- imaginary,
- impractical,
- interdisciplinary,
- interscholastic,
- intramural,
- ivory-tower,
- learned,
- lettered,
- mandarin,
- moot,
- notional,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedagogical,
- pedantic,
- postgraduate,
- postulatory,
- preceptorial,
- preschool,
- professional,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- school,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- speculative,
- studious,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- theoretical,
- tutorial,
- university,
- unpractical,
- unrealistic,
- utopian,
- visionary