Academic synonyms

Academic synonyms such as don, bookish, abstract, bluestocking, and bookworm. Academic is an adjective, and its antonyms are practical and non-academic. Additionally, here are 67 synonyms, related words, and verbs for academic.

67 synonyms for academic

1. educational

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.

2. theoretical

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.

3. scholar

Bluestocking, bookworm, don, educator, egghead, fellow, highbrow, instructor, lecturer, man/woman of letters, pedagogue, professor, scholar, teacher, thinker, trainer, and tutor.

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