'Scholastic' definitions:
Definition of 'scholastic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
adjective
Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy"
noun
A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [syn: pedant, bookworm, scholastic]
noun
A Scholastic philosopher or theologian
Definition of 'Scholastic'
From: GCIDE
- Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, n.
- 1. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (R. C. Ch.) See the Note under Jesuit. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scholastic'
From: GCIDE
- Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, a. [L. scholasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to have leisure, to give lectures, to keep a school, from ? leisure, a lecture, a school: cf. F. scholastique, scolastique. See School.]
- 1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. --Sir K. Digby. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scholastic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstruse,
- academic,
- academician,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- bibliophagic,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- bookman,
- booky,
- canonist,
- civilized,
- classicist,
- classroom,
- clerk,
- collegiate,
- colossus of knowledge,
- conversant,
- cosmotheistic,
- cross-disciplinary,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- Cyrenaic,
- deep,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- divine,
- divinity student,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- eclectic,
- educated,
- Eleatic,
- empirical,
- encyclopedic,
- Epicurean,
- erudite,
- eudaemonistic,
- existential,
- extramural,
- formal,
- genius,
- giant of learning,
- graduate,
- graduate-professional,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- idealistic,
- inkhorn,
- instrumentalist,
- interdisciplinary,
- interscholastic,
- intramural,
- learned,
- learned clerk,
- learned man,
- lettered,
- literary,
- literary man,
- literate,
- litterateur,
- lover of learning,
- man of learning,
- man of letters,
- mandarin,
- mastermind,
- materialistic,
- mechanistic,
- Megarian,
- metaphysical,
- mine of information,
- monistic,
- naturalistic,
- nominalist,
- owlish,
- panlogistical,
- pansophic,
- pantheistic,
- pedagogical,
- pedantic,
- philologist,
- philologue,
- philomath,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- polyhistor,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- postgraduate,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- preschool,
- professional,
- professorial,
- profound,
- pundit,
- rabbinic,
- rationalistic,
- realist,
- realistic,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scholarly,
- school,
- schoolish,
- schoolman,
- sensationalistic,
- Stoic,
- student,
- studious,
- syncretistic,
- theistic,
- theologian,
- theological,
- theologician,
- theologist,
- theologizer,
- theologue,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- university,
- utilitarian,
- versed,
- vitalistic,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- walking encyclopedia,
- wise