Academic synonyms

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

Another word 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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