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 for academic and words similar to it.
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.