Academic
Educational
Synonyms Educational, instructional, school, collegiate, scholarly, literary, intellectual, erudite, educated, bookish, pedantic, cerebral, brainy, scholastic, pedagogical, college, university, studious, well read, clever, learned, cultured, highbrow, donnish, serious, and lettered.
Theoretical
Synonyms Theoretical, notional, unpragmatic, speculative, conjectured, putative, abstract, general, unrealistic, irrelevant, suppositious, ideational, conceptual, philosophical, hypothetical, conjectural, suppositional, indefinite, vague, impractical, ivory-tower, useless, and suppositive.
Scholar
Synonyms Scholar, don, educator, trainer, professor, man/woman of letters, thinker, egghead, pedagogue, lecturer, teacher, instructor, tutor, fellow, highbrow, bluestocking, and bookworm.
Example Sentences
She achieved notable academic success.
The professor values academic rigor.
He pursued an academic career.
Academic achievements were widely recognized.
They attended an academic conference.