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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | academic |
| Synonyms: | learned, lettered, literary, pedantic, scholarly |
| Main Entry: | academic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relating to schooling, learning |
| Synonyms: | book-learned, bookish, college, collegiate, erudite, intellectual, learned, pedantic, scholarly, scholastic, studious, university |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, untaught |
| Main Entry: | academic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scholar or university/college teacher |
| Synonyms: | academician, lecturer, professor, pupil, scholar, scholastic, student, tutor |
| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
| Main Entry: | classical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning ancient culture |
| Synonyms: | Attic, Augustan, Doric, Grecian, Greek, Hellenic, Homeric, Ionic, Latin, Roman, Virgilian, academic, belletristic, bookish, canonic, canonical, classic, classicistic, humanistic, scholastic |
| Notes: | for classic, assume the meaning 'of the highest class' and 'typical, excellent as an example; timeless' and for classical 'pertaining to or characteristic of Greek or Roman antiquity or civilization' |
| Main Entry: | educational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instructional |
| Synonyms: | academic, cultural, didactic, informational, informative, instructive, scholarly, scholastic, tutorial |
| Main Entry: | erudite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-educated, cultured |
| Synonyms: | brainy, cultivated, educated, highbrow, in the know, into*, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, savvy, scholarly, scholastic, studious, well-read, wise up |
| Antonyms: | common, ignorant, uncultured, uneducated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedagogic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
| Synonyms: | academic, dogmatic, instructive, learned, professorial, profound, scholastic, teaching |
| Main Entry: | pedantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bookish, precise |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
| Antonyms: | imprecise, informal |
| Main Entry: | scholarly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | academic |
| Synonyms: | bookish, cultured, educated, erudite, intellectual, learned, lettered, literate, longhair, scholastic, schooled, studious, taught, trained, well-read |
| Antonyms: | uneducated, unscholarly |
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