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.
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.