67 synonyms for academic such as don, bookish, abstract, bluestocking, and bookworm. Academic is an adjective, and its antonyms are practical and non-academic.
Bookish, brainy, cerebral, clever, college, collegiate, cultured, donnish, educated, educational, erudite, highbrow, instructional, intellectual, learned, lettered, literary, pedagogical, pedantic, scholarly, scholastic, school, serious, studious, university, and well read.
Abstract, conceptual, conjectural, conjectured, general, hypothetical, ideational, impractical, indefinite, irrelevant, ivory-tower, notional, philosophical, putative, speculative, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, theoretical, unpragmatic, unrealistic, useless, and vague.
Bluestocking, bookworm, don, educator, egghead, fellow, highbrow, instructor, lecturer, man/woman of letters, pedagogue, professor, scholar, teacher, thinker, trainer, and tutor.