| Main Entry: | academic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relating to schooling, learning |
Synonyms: |
book-learned, bookish, college, collegiate, erudite, intellectual, learned, pedantic, scholarly, scholastic, studious, university |
Antonyms: |
ignorant, untaught |
| Main Entry: | academic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relating to theories, philosophy |
Synonyms: |
abstract, closet, conjectural, formalistic, hypothetical, notional, speculative, theoretical |
Antonyms: |
ordinary, plain, practical, simple |
| Main Entry: | academic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scholar or university/college teacher |
Synonyms: |
academician, lecturer, professor, pupil, scholar, scholastic, student, tutor |
Antonyms: |
ignoramus |
| Main Entry: | classical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning ancient culture |
Synonyms: |
Attic, Augustan, Doric, Grecian, Greek, Hellenic, Homeric, Ionic, Latin, Roman, Virgilian, academic, belletristic, bookish, canonic, canonical, classic, classicistic, humanistic, scholastic |
| Notes: | for classic, assume the meaning 'of the highest class' and 'typical, excellent as an example; timeless' and for classical 'pertaining to or characteristic of Greek or Roman antiquity or civilization' |
| Main Entry: | conjectural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speculative |
Synonyms: |
academic, assumed, doubtful, figured, guessing, guesstimated, hypothetical, on a hunch, on a long shot, putative, reputed, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, surmised, surmising, suspect, tentative, theoretical, uncertain, unresolved |
Antonyms: |
certain, factual, proven, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | didactic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational |
Synonyms: |
academic, advisory, donnish, edifying, enlightening, exhortative, expository, homiletic, hortative, instructive, moral, moralizing, pedagogic, pedantic, preachy, preceptive, schoolmasterist, sermonic, sermonizing, teacherish, teacherly, teachy |
| Main Entry: | educational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instructional |
Synonyms: |
academic, cultural, didactic, informational, informative, instructive, scholarly, scholastic, tutorial |
| Main Entry: | faculty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teachers in educational institution |
Synonyms: |
academics, advisers, body, clinic, college, corps, department, employees, institute, instructors, lecturers, literati, mentors, organization, pedagogues, personnel, professorate, professors, profs, researchers, scholars, society, staff, tutors, university, workers |
Antonyms: |
students |
| Main Entry: | formal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | established, orderly |
Synonyms: |
academic, approved, ceremonial, ceremonialistic, ceremonious, confirmed, conventional, decorous, directed, explicit, express, fixed, formalistic, lawful, legal, methodical, official, precise, prescribed, pro forma, proper, punctilious, regular, rigid, ritual, ritualistic, set, solemn, stately, stereotyped, stereotypical, strict, systematic |
Antonyms: |
disorderly, informal, relaxed |
| Main Entry: | highbrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual, very smart person |
Synonyms: |
Einstein, academic, academician, bluestocking, brain*, egghead, genius, illuminato, intelligentsia, literato, longhair, philosopher, sage, savant, scholar, thinker, whiz* |