academic

academic
/ak'euh dem"ik/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, esp. one for higher education: academic requirements.
2. pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
3. theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.
4. learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
5. conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.
6. acquired by formal education, esp. at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.
7. (cap.) of or pertaining to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.
n.
8. a student or teacher at a college or university.
9. a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
10. (cap.) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
11. academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.
[1580-90; < L Academicus < Gk Akademeikós. See ACADEMY, ACADEME, -IC]
Syn. 2. humanistic, liberal. 4. theoretical. 5. See formal1.

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