Definition of academic in English:

academic

adjective akəˈdɛmɪkˌækəˈdɛmɪk

1Relating to education and scholarship.
academic achievement
he had no academic qualifications
Example sentencesExamples
- All parents care deeply about their children's education and academic progress.
- I had grown up in a middle-class Jewish milieu where intellect, distilled into academic achievement, was everything.
- Some disabilities, such as severe autism, can profoundly limit the academic achievement of students.
- This was the case that upheld a Washington law that gave academic scholarships to qualified students, but forbid them from using them to study theology.
- Admission to higher education is by academic qualifications.
- We need to bridge the gaps of academic achievement among all student groups.
- They also analyzed the long-term academic achievement of these students.
- Even among disadvantaged students, many of these schools are working miracles in fostering a culture of academic achievement - on small budgets.
- CGF academic scholarships are awarded to full-time students pursuing a college education in Canada or abroad.
- A second factor was the development of scientific and technical education to confer coveted academic qualifications on the captains of industry.
- The length of time in a two-way bilingual program is positively correlated with student academic achievement.
- They had been taught more purposefully, coached in exam technique and raised and educated in settings where academic achievement was valued.
- All of these factors contribute significantly to their high dropout rates and poor academic achievement.
- Burrell received a 2004 Jazz Educator of the Year award from Down Beat magazine for academic achievement and excellence in jazz education.
- Sander looked at the impact of Catholic grade school education on academic achievement.
- The teachers have helped establish the school's orderly and serious atmosphere, and its culture deeply respectful of academic achievement.
- But school is still only one strand of their education and academic achievement isn't everything.
- I chose to interview eleven Vietnamese refugee youths who received scholarships for their academic achievement.
- His education was paid by a full academic scholarship from some charitable foundation; her education was paid by her parents.
- On the other hand, they could be very selective admitting only those of the highest academic qualifications and achievements.
Synonyms
educational, scholastic, instructional, pedagogical
school, college, collegiate, university
scholarly, studious, literary, well read, intellectual, clever, erudite, learned, educated, cultured, bookish, highbrow, pedantic, donnish, cerebral, serious
informal brainy
dated lettered
1. 1.1 Relating to an educational or scholarly institution or environment.
  students resplendent in academic dress
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the academic environment, student retention and retention of alumni loyalty are important strategic goals.
  The author reviews the problems that have plagued history in the academic environment to dispel the popular belief that history is the same thing as the past.
  It was an important milestone in my own disillusionment with what often passed for ‘liberalism’ in some academic environments.
  Perhaps, too, the academic environment is just too rarefied, too unrelated to a recognisable outside world, to be satirically relevant.
  It also has a job bank and links to the growing number of academic institutions with educational tracks that support the meeting profession.
  For this to happen it takes longer than a few weeks of holidaying or even a few years spent studying at an academic institution.
  When I went back and read what is being proposed, some of the language suggests that the plan is to fund early drug discovery and development in an academic environment.
  The sex workers who come for training have to learn what research is about, what the budgets involve, how to negotiate within an unfamiliar academic environment.
  The future of strategic studies in terms of academic organization will be tested in a number of respects.
  The question that then emerged was, ‘How does one groove to a daggy disco mix in formal wear and long academic gown?’
  ‘In the majority of cases, the moderators tend to come from the academic environment or the wealthier churches,’ he said.
  Moving away from the academic environment was a shrewd move for Stoneham, who has trebled the amount of business she used to do at Oxford University.
  Pressures within the academic environment itself may subtly push professors toward viewing their students as would-be clones of themselves.
  He always sought an academic environment and therefore moved from Llanelli to Cardiff, the site of his final appointment and where he lived out his retirement.
  Some seek extra practicum experiences outside their academic departments prior to internship in an effort to compensate for the lack of breadth in their training.
  The faculty and other staff and students at both International and at Sofia University welcomed him and helped him to settle into the new academic environment.
  And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment.
  When it came to the academic environment, I was a natural.
  It might be asked why parapsychology is studied in some academic institutions.
  The word communication is debated in today's academic environments.
  This gives a total of around 113 identifiable anthropologists working in Australian academic environments.
  Educational leave refers to the practice of a company allowing its employees to suspend their work to study in an academic institution with the intention of earning a degree.
  Accounting historians as a whole have yet to appreciate the important contextual differences now seen in the U.S. academic environment.
  This type of intervention does work in helping students meet short-term academic goals in the educational setting.
  In an academic environment, for example, there may be less need for an easy-to-learn system because it's the user's job to learn.
  I did do some of this stuff when I was in school; I didn't read all of it outside the academic environment.
2. 1.2 (of an institution or a course of study) placing a greater emphasis on reading and study than on technical or practical work.
  a very academic school aiming to get pupils into Oxford or Cambridge
  Example sentencesExamples
  However a debate has simmered for years as to whether journalism has improved with the welter of academic courses which produce hundreds of graduates each year.
  The reality is that a diverse school can provide a first-class academic education.
  You receive a grade on your transcript for your internship course, just as you do for your academic courses.
  The bursary received will afford the elite sports person the opportunity to compete at the highest level while pursuing a course of academic study at the Institute.
  Here's a short snapshot of a dynamic realm that helps to generate my weekly column for the Irish Examiner as well as keep the reading material in my academic courses relevant.
  Much of what Elgar as composer put into practice went well beyond what was available to him in the textbooks or what could have been derived from an institutional academic course on music.
  But then Miller began taking more traditional academic courses and found he loved being a college student.
  The emphasis on completing secondary school (high school) includes academic and religious studies.
  It's an academic course and there's lots of reading and writing.
  But in the hothouse environment of academic science the flawed theory has been allowed to survive.
  Wigan and Leigh College offers an industry-led academic course in fashion technology that provides the foundation for a range of careers in the industry.
  Without the Student Loan Scheme, university students would continue to pursue the lofty academic courses whose demise is being so sorely lamented.
  Student farm managers report that academic integration - linking farm work directly to academic courses - can also be a challenge.
  Universities have been encouraged to provide more practical training and decrease the emphasis on academic study.
  And it reflects the wide range of courses available at the region's universities, alongside the more traditional academic courses associated with degree courses.
  The Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, has questioned public funding of purely academic courses.
  All bona fide masters insist upon the completion of an academic course of study.
  Flooding academic courses with under-prepared students may have had the net effect of driving the rigor out of these courses.
  According to Dr. Rajan, the Centre is doing advanced research, apart from conducting usual academic courses of higher studies.
  A variety of academic courses in foreign-area studies could precede or follow such summer programs.
3. 1.3 (of a person) interested in or excelling at scholarly pursuits and activities.
  Ben is not an academic child but he tries hard
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unlike the vast majority of academic thinkers, Zizek is not worried about being ‘careless.’
  Because Sue wasn't academic, I did begin to worry about her, but once she went to Eastbourne College to study domestic science, her life changed completely.
  Thurschwell writes with an academic audience in mind, but this book can be enjoyed by any serious reader interested in the cultural history of the late nineteenth century.
  In fact, if Kaplan wants, I can be his academic groupie.
  P.S. This is an interesting read, but irritating when the academic writer makes patronising attempts to cater to an ‘ordinary’ audience.
  It is interesting to see how academic writers ‘anonymously’ describe themselves and their works.
  I lived apart from the happy, academic families.
  But my stuffy academic friends each have their own store of knowledge.
  Perhaps it's difficult being academic in a non-academic environment.
  He was quite academic, was a great help at home and nothing was ever too much trouble for him.
  Most of my academic friends engage in similar pursuits.
  Lots of children are not academic but would make first-rate plumbers or electricians.
  The academic reader will find the book a scholarly and intellectual tour de force.
  The dauntingly solid volumes also offer the reader an anthology of short extracts, specific illustrations of usage and enough etymological information to satisfy the more academic reader.
  My academic parents gave me ‘The Times’ to read at 4.
  Unlike most current academic thinkers, they believe the market is neither unpredictable nor random, that patterns lie buried in the mass of data that daily gushes forth.
  This is what passes for humor in an academic family.
  Probably won't go down well with my academic friends, but I felt I really wanted to be out doing things more in the real world than actually doing research.
  At the moment, we attract a very intellectual, academic audience and we want to make it a cultural centre which will welcome family groups.
  You may not have all the book smarts that some people do, and I was certainly never an academic person.
  Synonyms
  scholarly, erudite, well educated, knowledgeable, well read, widely read, well versed, well informed, lettered, cultured, cultivated, civilized, intellectual, intelligent, clever, literary, bookish, highbrow, studious, sage, wise, sagacious, discerning, donnish, cerebral, enlightened, illuminated, sophisticated, pedantic
4. 1.4 (of an art form) conventional, especially in an idealized or excessively formal way.
  academic painting
  Example sentencesExamples
  They eventually rejected their teachers' conventional ideas and academic art, yet spent years assiduously copying and assimilating the Old Masters.
  However, in style and technique the artists of the Ashcan School are now seen to have differed less from contemporary academic painting than they themselves believed.
  Such issues are not the stuff of academic painting, which operates within a closed system.
  This painting within a painting shows a flayed figure whose blue body resembles an ecorche statuette used in academic life-study classes.
  Like impressionism, art nouveau was an International revolt against the traditional academic art style.
  However, in 1904 academic painting still dominated state-sponsored salons, and a world's fair art exhibition was inherently nationalistic.
  When modernists eventually revolted against academic history painting, they did not uniformly abandon this august dream.
  Charles Russell invites us to break out of the confinements of academic art and art history in order to open our eyes a little wider and take a glimpse at what is a far greater vision.
  In eastern Europe there is an ironic return to pandering after western Europe, as Classicism once affected the formal precepts of French academic style.
  ‘Raphael Replaced’ is how Tinterow describes the challenging move in French art away from the academic model.
  Between 1940 and '42 he studied fine and commercial art, from academic nudes to lettering.
  The search for art created beyond the reach of academic officialdom began with the discovery of Henri Rousseau by Picasso's circle in early twentieth century France.
  In Gerome's quasi-photographic version of academic painting, tone came first.
  As a result, modernism seems to germinate - naturally and inescapably - in the damp, sweetly rotten soil of academic art.
  The point is that if one wants to find what sets Gainsborough apart from his contemporaries, even the academic Reynolds, it is best to look beyond iconological content.
2Not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest.
the debate has been largely academic
Example sentencesExamples
- The question is of more than academic interest for players, officials and the WRU itself.
- All this is of more than academic interest to the City.
- A loss against India will mean the champions are out of the championship and their final league match against Bangladesh will be only of academic interest.
- I realise this is of purely academic interest to readers.
- ‘I think my interest in hurricanes was academic until Andrew,’ Landsea said.
- The US debate over offshoring of high skilled jobs is of more than academic interest to New Zealand.
- The final game against Castlebar Mitchells was of academic interest only as Ballyhaunis could not make the play-offs.
- That solution is of more than academic interest.
- That finding may be of more than academic interest.
- To pursue this line of reasoning in this case is really only of academic interest and of no practical import.
- The fact that he cannot speak or hear is just a matter of academic interest.
- The outcome of a game where there is no personal investment is usually of academic interest.
- Polygamy may seem an exotic topic, but it is not just of historical or academic interest.
- This is something that is of more academic than practical interest.
- Parliament chiefs insist the figure is purely academic and was calculated because of the need to estimate a replacement value for all government buildings.
- These are questions of more than academic interest.
- I used to have what I thought of as a purely academic interest in Nazi propaganda.
- I mean, I've got a few labs and some plans, but it's purely an academic interest for me.
- This is not of mere academic interest to the Swiss.
- This discussion is not of purely academic interest, because it has arisen in a practical way in a number of different contexts in recent years.
Synonyms
theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, unpragmatic, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, conjectured, suppositional, putative
indefinite, abstract, vague, general
impractical, unrealistic, ivory-tower, irrelevant, useless
rare suppositious, suppositive, ideational

noun akəˈdɛmɪkˌækəˈdɛmɪk

A teacher or scholar in a university or other institute of higher education.
the EU offers grants to academics for research on approved projects
Example sentencesExamples
- There had been no angry questions from the academics among his audience.
- Of greater significance was the conservative outlook of the University's academics.
- He is equally a loss to fellow academics and to the various committees on which he served.
- Along with most academics he had strong views on how research should be managed.
- It became a bestseller on the shelves of students, academics and workers throughout the land.
- Many of the appointees have been academics rather than professional lawyers.
- Only in very special cases do academics receive honorary doctorates from their own universities.
- I've seen black professors asked about their experience as academics in a white profession.
- However, some academics pour cold water on the notion of a machine-created universe.
- However, it is doubtful that such a move would be well-received by students and academics.
- Everyone can benefit from the most respected academics and the best tutors.
- Inside Out showed anonymous copies of some of the student essays to academics.
- The Liberal Democrats have been targeting students and academics on campus.
- Up to four different lectures were held each day by academics such as Professor Anthony Grayling.
- The last two books on offer are both compendiums of articles by different academics.
- It will also include a series of lectures from internationally-renowned academics.
- Educational visits are high on the list but contrary to belief the office is not just for scholars and academics.
- The survey was carried out at Glasgow Royal Infirmary by Glasgow University academics.
- The book will be most suitable for research students, postdocs and academics.
- An insightful and intelligent collection of resources for academics and students.
Synonyms
scholar, lecturer, don, teacher, educator, instructor, trainer, tutor, professor, fellow, man/woman of letters, highbrow, thinker, bluestocking
informal egghead, bookworm
archaic pedagogue

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French académique or medieval Latin academicus, from academia (see academy).

Rhymes

alchemic, endemic, epidemic, pandemic, polemic, totemic

Definition of academic in US English:

academic

adjectiveˌakəˈdemikˌækəˈdɛmɪk

1Relating to education and scholarship.
academic achievement
he had no academic qualifications
Example sentencesExamples
- We need to bridge the gaps of academic achievement among all student groups.
- They had been taught more purposefully, coached in exam technique and raised and educated in settings where academic achievement was valued.
- Burrell received a 2004 Jazz Educator of the Year award from Down Beat magazine for academic achievement and excellence in jazz education.
- Some disabilities, such as severe autism, can profoundly limit the academic achievement of students.
- A second factor was the development of scientific and technical education to confer coveted academic qualifications on the captains of industry.
- The teachers have helped establish the school's orderly and serious atmosphere, and its culture deeply respectful of academic achievement.
- Sander looked at the impact of Catholic grade school education on academic achievement.
- All of these factors contribute significantly to their high dropout rates and poor academic achievement.
- But school is still only one strand of their education and academic achievement isn't everything.
- I chose to interview eleven Vietnamese refugee youths who received scholarships for their academic achievement.
- CGF academic scholarships are awarded to full-time students pursuing a college education in Canada or abroad.
- On the other hand, they could be very selective admitting only those of the highest academic qualifications and achievements.
- I had grown up in a middle-class Jewish milieu where intellect, distilled into academic achievement, was everything.
- His education was paid by a full academic scholarship from some charitable foundation; her education was paid by her parents.
- Even among disadvantaged students, many of these schools are working miracles in fostering a culture of academic achievement - on small budgets.
- This was the case that upheld a Washington law that gave academic scholarships to qualified students, but forbid them from using them to study theology.
- Admission to higher education is by academic qualifications.
- The length of time in a two-way bilingual program is positively correlated with student academic achievement.
- They also analyzed the long-term academic achievement of these students.
- All parents care deeply about their children's education and academic progress.
Synonyms
educational, scholastic, instructional, pedagogical
scholarly, studious, literary, well read, intellectual, clever, erudite, learned, educated, cultured, bookish, highbrow, pedantic, donnish, cerebral, serious
1. 1.1 Relating to an educational or scholarly institution or environment.
  students resplendent in academic dress
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps, too, the academic environment is just too rarefied, too unrelated to a recognisable outside world, to be satirically relevant.
  This type of intervention does work in helping students meet short-term academic goals in the educational setting.
  Moving away from the academic environment was a shrewd move for Stoneham, who has trebled the amount of business she used to do at Oxford University.
  Some seek extra practicum experiences outside their academic departments prior to internship in an effort to compensate for the lack of breadth in their training.
  The sex workers who come for training have to learn what research is about, what the budgets involve, how to negotiate within an unfamiliar academic environment.
  The faculty and other staff and students at both International and at Sofia University welcomed him and helped him to settle into the new academic environment.
  When I went back and read what is being proposed, some of the language suggests that the plan is to fund early drug discovery and development in an academic environment.
  It might be asked why parapsychology is studied in some academic institutions.
  Accounting historians as a whole have yet to appreciate the important contextual differences now seen in the U.S. academic environment.
  It also has a job bank and links to the growing number of academic institutions with educational tracks that support the meeting profession.
  Pressures within the academic environment itself may subtly push professors toward viewing their students as would-be clones of themselves.
  He always sought an academic environment and therefore moved from Llanelli to Cardiff, the site of his final appointment and where he lived out his retirement.
  It was an important milestone in my own disillusionment with what often passed for ‘liberalism’ in some academic environments.
  The future of strategic studies in terms of academic organization will be tested in a number of respects.
  ‘In the majority of cases, the moderators tend to come from the academic environment or the wealthier churches,’ he said.
  Educational leave refers to the practice of a company allowing its employees to suspend their work to study in an academic institution with the intention of earning a degree.
  The question that then emerged was, ‘How does one groove to a daggy disco mix in formal wear and long academic gown?’
  In an academic environment, for example, there may be less need for an easy-to-learn system because it's the user's job to learn.
  I did do some of this stuff when I was in school; I didn't read all of it outside the academic environment.
  In the academic environment, student retention and retention of alumni loyalty are important strategic goals.
  The author reviews the problems that have plagued history in the academic environment to dispel the popular belief that history is the same thing as the past.
  This gives a total of around 113 identifiable anthropologists working in Australian academic environments.
  And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment.
  For this to happen it takes longer than a few weeks of holidaying or even a few years spent studying at an academic institution.
  The word communication is debated in today's academic environments.
  When it came to the academic environment, I was a natural.
2. 1.2 (of an institution or a course of study) placing a greater emphasis on reading and study than on technical or practical work.
  an academic high school that prepares students for the best colleges and universities
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's an academic course and there's lots of reading and writing.
  The bursary received will afford the elite sports person the opportunity to compete at the highest level while pursuing a course of academic study at the Institute.
  Universities have been encouraged to provide more practical training and decrease the emphasis on academic study.
  You receive a grade on your transcript for your internship course, just as you do for your academic courses.
  Wigan and Leigh College offers an industry-led academic course in fashion technology that provides the foundation for a range of careers in the industry.
  However a debate has simmered for years as to whether journalism has improved with the welter of academic courses which produce hundreds of graduates each year.
  According to Dr. Rajan, the Centre is doing advanced research, apart from conducting usual academic courses of higher studies.
  But then Miller began taking more traditional academic courses and found he loved being a college student.
  Flooding academic courses with under-prepared students may have had the net effect of driving the rigor out of these courses.
  And it reflects the wide range of courses available at the region's universities, alongside the more traditional academic courses associated with degree courses.
  Student farm managers report that academic integration - linking farm work directly to academic courses - can also be a challenge.
  The emphasis on completing secondary school (high school) includes academic and religious studies.
  The reality is that a diverse school can provide a first-class academic education.
  Much of what Elgar as composer put into practice went well beyond what was available to him in the textbooks or what could have been derived from an institutional academic course on music.
  The Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, has questioned public funding of purely academic courses.
  All bona fide masters insist upon the completion of an academic course of study.
  Here's a short snapshot of a dynamic realm that helps to generate my weekly column for the Irish Examiner as well as keep the reading material in my academic courses relevant.
  A variety of academic courses in foreign-area studies could precede or follow such summer programs.
  But in the hothouse environment of academic science the flawed theory has been allowed to survive.
  Without the Student Loan Scheme, university students would continue to pursue the lofty academic courses whose demise is being so sorely lamented.
3. 1.3 (of a person) interested in or excelling at scholarly pursuits and activities.
  Ben is not an academic child but he tries hard
  Example sentencesExamples
  Probably won't go down well with my academic friends, but I felt I really wanted to be out doing things more in the real world than actually doing research.
  This is what passes for humor in an academic family.
  Unlike the vast majority of academic thinkers, Zizek is not worried about being ‘careless.’
  Unlike most current academic thinkers, they believe the market is neither unpredictable nor random, that patterns lie buried in the mass of data that daily gushes forth.
  Thurschwell writes with an academic audience in mind, but this book can be enjoyed by any serious reader interested in the cultural history of the late nineteenth century.
  In fact, if Kaplan wants, I can be his academic groupie.
  Most of my academic friends engage in similar pursuits.
  My academic parents gave me ‘The Times’ to read at 4.
  I lived apart from the happy, academic families.
  P.S. This is an interesting read, but irritating when the academic writer makes patronising attempts to cater to an ‘ordinary’ audience.
  Because Sue wasn't academic, I did begin to worry about her, but once she went to Eastbourne College to study domestic science, her life changed completely.
  At the moment, we attract a very intellectual, academic audience and we want to make it a cultural centre which will welcome family groups.
  Perhaps it's difficult being academic in a non-academic environment.
  The dauntingly solid volumes also offer the reader an anthology of short extracts, specific illustrations of usage and enough etymological information to satisfy the more academic reader.
  But my stuffy academic friends each have their own store of knowledge.
  The academic reader will find the book a scholarly and intellectual tour de force.
  He was quite academic, was a great help at home and nothing was ever too much trouble for him.
  Lots of children are not academic but would make first-rate plumbers or electricians.
  It is interesting to see how academic writers ‘anonymously’ describe themselves and their works.
  You may not have all the book smarts that some people do, and I was certainly never an academic person.
  Synonyms
  scholarly, erudite, well educated, knowledgeable, well read, widely read, well versed, well informed, lettered, cultured, cultivated, civilized, intellectual, intelligent, clever, literary, bookish, highbrow, studious, sage, wise, sagacious, discerning, donnish, cerebral, enlightened, illuminated, sophisticated, pedantic
4. 1.4 (of an art form) conventional, especially in an idealized or excessively formal way.
  academic painting
  Example sentencesExamples
  The search for art created beyond the reach of academic officialdom began with the discovery of Henri Rousseau by Picasso's circle in early twentieth century France.
  This painting within a painting shows a flayed figure whose blue body resembles an ecorche statuette used in academic life-study classes.
  However, in 1904 academic painting still dominated state-sponsored salons, and a world's fair art exhibition was inherently nationalistic.
  In Gerome's quasi-photographic version of academic painting, tone came first.
  Like impressionism, art nouveau was an International revolt against the traditional academic art style.
  As a result, modernism seems to germinate - naturally and inescapably - in the damp, sweetly rotten soil of academic art.
  Between 1940 and '42 he studied fine and commercial art, from academic nudes to lettering.
  When modernists eventually revolted against academic history painting, they did not uniformly abandon this august dream.
  Charles Russell invites us to break out of the confinements of academic art and art history in order to open our eyes a little wider and take a glimpse at what is a far greater vision.
  However, in style and technique the artists of the Ashcan School are now seen to have differed less from contemporary academic painting than they themselves believed.
  They eventually rejected their teachers' conventional ideas and academic art, yet spent years assiduously copying and assimilating the Old Masters.
  The point is that if one wants to find what sets Gainsborough apart from his contemporaries, even the academic Reynolds, it is best to look beyond iconological content.
  Such issues are not the stuff of academic painting, which operates within a closed system.
  In eastern Europe there is an ironic return to pandering after western Europe, as Classicism once affected the formal precepts of French academic style.
  ‘Raphael Replaced’ is how Tinterow describes the challenging move in French art away from the academic model.
2Not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest.
the debate has been largely academic
Example sentencesExamples
- The fact that he cannot speak or hear is just a matter of academic interest.
- To pursue this line of reasoning in this case is really only of academic interest and of no practical import.
- ‘I think my interest in hurricanes was academic until Andrew,’ Landsea said.
- I mean, I've got a few labs and some plans, but it's purely an academic interest for me.
- These are questions of more than academic interest.
- The outcome of a game where there is no personal investment is usually of academic interest.
- Parliament chiefs insist the figure is purely academic and was calculated because of the need to estimate a replacement value for all government buildings.
- This is something that is of more academic than practical interest.
- The question is of more than academic interest for players, officials and the WRU itself.
- I used to have what I thought of as a purely academic interest in Nazi propaganda.
- A loss against India will mean the champions are out of the championship and their final league match against Bangladesh will be only of academic interest.
- The final game against Castlebar Mitchells was of academic interest only as Ballyhaunis could not make the play-offs.
- This is not of mere academic interest to the Swiss.
- I realise this is of purely academic interest to readers.
- Polygamy may seem an exotic topic, but it is not just of historical or academic interest.
- That solution is of more than academic interest.
- That finding may be of more than academic interest.
- This discussion is not of purely academic interest, because it has arisen in a practical way in a number of different contexts in recent years.
- The US debate over offshoring of high skilled jobs is of more than academic interest to New Zealand.
- All this is of more than academic interest to the City.
Synonyms
theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, unpragmatic, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, conjectured, suppositional, putative

nounˌakəˈdemikˌækəˈdɛmɪk

A teacher or scholar in a college or institute of higher education.
Example sentencesExamples
- However, some academics pour cold water on the notion of a machine-created universe.
- Many of the appointees have been academics rather than professional lawyers.
- Along with most academics he had strong views on how research should be managed.
- It will also include a series of lectures from internationally-renowned academics.
- An insightful and intelligent collection of resources for academics and students.
- The last two books on offer are both compendiums of articles by different academics.
- Of greater significance was the conservative outlook of the University's academics.
- It became a bestseller on the shelves of students, academics and workers throughout the land.
- Only in very special cases do academics receive honorary doctorates from their own universities.
- Educational visits are high on the list but contrary to belief the office is not just for scholars and academics.
- However, it is doubtful that such a move would be well-received by students and academics.
- I've seen black professors asked about their experience as academics in a white profession.
- He is equally a loss to fellow academics and to the various committees on which he served.
- Everyone can benefit from the most respected academics and the best tutors.
- Inside Out showed anonymous copies of some of the student essays to academics.
- The Liberal Democrats have been targeting students and academics on campus.
- The survey was carried out at Glasgow Royal Infirmary by Glasgow University academics.
- There had been no angry questions from the academics among his audience.
- The book will be most suitable for research students, postdocs and academics.
- Up to four different lectures were held each day by academics such as Professor Anthony Grayling.
Synonyms
scholar, lecturer, don, teacher, educator, instructor, trainer, tutor, professor, fellow, man of letters, woman of letters, highbrow, thinker, bluestocking

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French académique or medieval Latin academicus, from academia (see academy).

单词	academic
释义	Definition of academic in English: academic adjective akəˈdɛmɪkˌækəˈdɛmɪk 1Relating to education and scholarship. academic achievement he had no academic qualifications Example sentencesExamples All parents care deeply about their children's education and academic progress. I had grown up in a middle-class Jewish milieu where intellect, distilled into academic achievement, was everything. Some disabilities, such as severe autism, can profoundly limit the academic achievement of students. This was the case that upheld a Washington law that gave academic scholarships to qualified students, but forbid them from using them to study theology. Admission to higher education is by academic qualifications. We need to bridge the gaps of academic achievement among all student groups. They also analyzed the long-term academic achievement of these students. Even among disadvantaged students, many of these schools are working miracles in fostering a culture of academic achievement - on small budgets. CGF academic scholarships are awarded to full-time students pursuing a college education in Canada or abroad. A second factor was the development of scientific and technical education to confer coveted academic qualifications on the captains of industry. The length of time in a two-way bilingual program is positively correlated with student academic achievement. They had been taught more purposefully, coached in exam technique and raised and educated in settings where academic achievement was valued. All of these factors contribute significantly to their high dropout rates and poor academic achievement. Burrell received a 2004 Jazz Educator of the Year award from Down Beat magazine for academic achievement and excellence in jazz education. Sander looked at the impact of Catholic grade school education on academic achievement. The teachers have helped establish the school's orderly and serious atmosphere, and its culture deeply respectful of academic achievement. But school is still only one strand of their education and academic achievement isn't everything. I chose to interview eleven Vietnamese refugee youths who received scholarships for their academic achievement. His education was paid by a full academic scholarship from some charitable foundation; her education was paid by her parents. On the other hand, they could be very selective admitting only those of the highest academic qualifications and achievements. Synonyms educational, scholastic, instructional, pedagogical school, college, collegiate, university scholarly, studious, literary, well read, intellectual, clever, erudite, learned, educated, cultured, bookish, highbrow, pedantic, donnish, cerebral, serious informal brainy dated lettered 1.1 Relating to an educational or scholarly institution or environment. students resplendent in academic dress Example sentencesExamples In the academic environment, student retention and retention of alumni loyalty are important strategic goals. The author reviews the problems that have plagued history in the academic environment to dispel the popular belief that history is the same thing as the past. It was an important milestone in my own disillusionment with what often passed for ‘liberalism’ in some academic environments. Perhaps, too, the academic environment is just too rarefied, too unrelated to a recognisable outside world, to be satirically relevant. It also has a job bank and links to the growing number of academic institutions with educational tracks that support the meeting profession. For this to happen it takes longer than a few weeks of holidaying or even a few years spent studying at an academic institution. When I went back and read what is being proposed, some of the language suggests that the plan is to fund early drug discovery and development in an academic environment. The sex workers who come for training have to learn what research is about, what the budgets involve, how to negotiate within an unfamiliar academic environment. The future of strategic studies in terms of academic organization will be tested in a number of respects. The question that then emerged was, ‘How does one groove to a daggy disco mix in formal wear and long academic gown?’ ‘In the majority of cases, the moderators tend to come from the academic environment or the wealthier churches,’ he said. Moving away from the academic environment was a shrewd move for Stoneham, who has trebled the amount of business she used to do at Oxford University. Pressures within the academic environment itself may subtly push professors toward viewing their students as would-be clones of themselves. He always sought an academic environment and therefore moved from Llanelli to Cardiff, the site of his final appointment and where he lived out his retirement. Some seek extra practicum experiences outside their academic departments prior to internship in an effort to compensate for the lack of breadth in their training. The faculty and other staff and students at both International and at Sofia University welcomed him and helped him to settle into the new academic environment. And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment. When it came to the academic environment, I was a natural. It might be asked why parapsychology is studied in some academic institutions. The word communication is debated in today's academic environments. This gives a total of around 113 identifiable anthropologists working in Australian academic environments. Educational leave refers to the practice of a company allowing its employees to suspend their work to study in an academic institution with the intention of earning a degree. Accounting historians as a whole have yet to appreciate the important contextual differences now seen in the U.S. academic environment. This type of intervention does work in helping students meet short-term academic goals in the educational setting. In an academic environment, for example, there may be less need for an easy-to-learn system because it's the user's job to learn. I did do some of this stuff when I was in school; I didn't read all of it outside the academic environment. 1.2 (of an institution or a course of study) placing a greater emphasis on reading and study than on technical or practical work. a very academic school aiming to get pupils into Oxford or Cambridge Example sentencesExamples However a debate has simmered for years as to whether journalism has improved with the welter of academic courses which produce hundreds of graduates each year. The reality is that a diverse school can provide a first-class academic education. You receive a grade on your transcript for your internship course, just as you do for your academic courses. The bursary received will afford the elite sports person the opportunity to compete at the highest level while pursuing a course of academic study at the Institute. Here's a short snapshot of a dynamic realm that helps to generate my weekly column for the Irish Examiner as well as keep the reading material in my academic courses relevant. Much of what Elgar as composer put into practice went well beyond what was available to him in the textbooks or what could have been derived from an institutional academic course on music. But then Miller began taking more traditional academic courses and found he loved being a college student. The emphasis on completing secondary school (high school) includes academic and religious studies. It's an academic course and there's lots of reading and writing. But in the hothouse environment of academic science the flawed theory has been allowed to survive. Wigan and Leigh College offers an industry-led academic course in fashion technology that provides the foundation for a range of careers in the industry. Without the Student Loan Scheme, university students would continue to pursue the lofty academic courses whose demise is being so sorely lamented. Student farm managers report that academic integration - linking farm work directly to academic courses - can also be a challenge. Universities have been encouraged to provide more practical training and decrease the emphasis on academic study. And it reflects the wide range of courses available at the region's universities, alongside the more traditional academic courses associated with degree courses. The Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, has questioned public funding of purely academic courses. All bona fide masters insist upon the completion of an academic course of study. Flooding academic courses with under-prepared students may have had the net effect of driving the rigor out of these courses. According to Dr. Rajan, the Centre is doing advanced research, apart from conducting usual academic courses of higher studies. A variety of academic courses in foreign-area studies could precede or follow such summer programs. 1.3 (of a person) interested in or excelling at scholarly pursuits and activities. Ben is not an academic child but he tries hard Example sentencesExamples Unlike the vast majority of academic thinkers, Zizek is not worried about being ‘careless.’ Because Sue wasn't academic, I did begin to worry about her, but once she went to Eastbourne College to study domestic science, her life changed completely. Thurschwell writes with an academic audience in mind, but this book can be enjoyed by any serious reader interested in the cultural history of the late nineteenth century. In fact, if Kaplan wants, I can be his academic groupie. P.S. This is an interesting read, but irritating when the academic writer makes patronising attempts to cater to an ‘ordinary’ audience. It is interesting to see how academic writers ‘anonymously’ describe themselves and their works. I lived apart from the happy, academic families. But my stuffy academic friends each have their own store of knowledge. Perhaps it's difficult being academic in a non-academic environment. He was quite academic, was a great help at home and nothing was ever too much trouble for him. Most of my academic friends engage in similar pursuits. Lots of children are not academic but would make first-rate plumbers or electricians. The academic reader will find the book a scholarly and intellectual tour de force. The dauntingly solid volumes also offer the reader an anthology of short extracts, specific illustrations of usage and enough etymological information to satisfy the more academic reader. My academic parents gave me ‘The Times’ to read at 4. Unlike most current academic thinkers, they believe the market is neither unpredictable nor random, that patterns lie buried in the mass of data that daily gushes forth. This is what passes for humor in an academic family. Probably won't go down well with my academic friends, but I felt I really wanted to be out doing things more in the real world than actually doing research. At the moment, we attract a very intellectual, academic audience and we want to make it a cultural centre which will welcome family groups. You may not have all the book smarts that some people do, and I was certainly never an academic person. Synonyms scholarly, erudite, well educated, knowledgeable, well read, widely read, well versed, well informed, lettered, cultured, cultivated, civilized, intellectual, intelligent, clever, literary, bookish, highbrow, studious, sage, wise, sagacious, discerning, donnish, cerebral, enlightened, illuminated, sophisticated, pedantic 1.4 (of an art form) conventional, especially in an idealized or excessively formal way. academic painting Example sentencesExamples They eventually rejected their teachers' conventional ideas and academic art, yet spent years assiduously copying and assimilating the Old Masters. However, in style and technique the artists of the Ashcan School are now seen to have differed less from contemporary academic painting than they themselves believed. Such issues are not the stuff of academic painting, which operates within a closed system. This painting within a painting shows a flayed figure whose blue body resembles an ecorche statuette used in academic life-study classes. Like impressionism, art nouveau was an International revolt against the traditional academic art style. However, in 1904 academic painting still dominated state-sponsored salons, and a world's fair art exhibition was inherently nationalistic. When modernists eventually revolted against academic history painting, they did not uniformly abandon this august dream. Charles Russell invites us to break out of the confinements of academic art and art history in order to open our eyes a little wider and take a glimpse at what is a far greater vision. In eastern Europe there is an ironic return to pandering after western Europe, as Classicism once affected the formal precepts of French academic style. ‘Raphael Replaced’ is how Tinterow describes the challenging move in French art away from the academic model. Between 1940 and '42 he studied fine and commercial art, from academic nudes to lettering. The search for art created beyond the reach of academic officialdom began with the discovery of Henri Rousseau by Picasso's circle in early twentieth century France. In Gerome's quasi-photographic version of academic painting, tone came first. As a result, modernism seems to germinate - naturally and inescapably - in the damp, sweetly rotten soil of academic art. The point is that if one wants to find what sets Gainsborough apart from his contemporaries, even the academic Reynolds, it is best to look beyond iconological content. 2Not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest. the debate has been largely academic Example sentencesExamples The question is of more than academic interest for players, officials and the WRU itself. All this is of more than academic interest to the City. A loss against India will mean the champions are out of the championship and their final league match against Bangladesh will be only of academic interest. I realise this is of purely academic interest to readers. ‘I think my interest in hurricanes was academic until Andrew,’ Landsea said. The US debate over offshoring of high skilled jobs is of more than academic interest to New Zealand. The final game against Castlebar Mitchells was of academic interest only as Ballyhaunis could not make the play-offs. That solution is of more than academic interest. That finding may be of more than academic interest. To pursue this line of reasoning in this case is really only of academic interest and of no practical import. The fact that he cannot speak or hear is just a matter of academic interest. The outcome of a game where there is no personal investment is usually of academic interest. Polygamy may seem an exotic topic, but it is not just of historical or academic interest. This is something that is of more academic than practical interest. Parliament chiefs insist the figure is purely academic and was calculated because of the need to estimate a replacement value for all government buildings. These are questions of more than academic interest. I used to have what I thought of as a purely academic interest in Nazi propaganda. I mean, I've got a few labs and some plans, but it's purely an academic interest for me. This is not of mere academic interest to the Swiss. This discussion is not of purely academic interest, because it has arisen in a practical way in a number of different contexts in recent years. Synonyms theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, unpragmatic, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, conjectured, suppositional, putative indefinite, abstract, vague, general impractical, unrealistic, ivory-tower, irrelevant, useless rare suppositious, suppositive, ideational noun akəˈdɛmɪkˌækəˈdɛmɪk A teacher or scholar in a university or other institute of higher education. the EU offers grants to academics for research on approved projects Example sentencesExamples There had been no angry questions from the academics among his audience. Of greater significance was the conservative outlook of the University's academics. He is equally a loss to fellow academics and to the various committees on which he served. Along with most academics he had strong views on how research should be managed. It became a bestseller on the shelves of students, academics and workers throughout the land. Many of the appointees have been academics rather than professional lawyers. Only in very special cases do academics receive honorary doctorates from their own universities. I've seen black professors asked about their experience as academics in a white profession. However, some academics pour cold water on the notion of a machine-created universe. However, it is doubtful that such a move would be well-received by students and academics. Everyone can benefit from the most respected academics and the best tutors. Inside Out showed anonymous copies of some of the student essays to academics. The Liberal Democrats have been targeting students and academics on campus. Up to four different lectures were held each day by academics such as Professor Anthony Grayling. The last two books on offer are both compendiums of articles by different academics. It will also include a series of lectures from internationally-renowned academics. Educational visits are high on the list but contrary to belief the office is not just for scholars and academics. The survey was carried out at Glasgow Royal Infirmary by Glasgow University academics. The book will be most suitable for research students, postdocs and academics. An insightful and intelligent collection of resources for academics and students. Synonyms scholar, lecturer, don, teacher, educator, instructor, trainer, tutor, professor, fellow, man/woman of letters, highbrow, thinker, bluestocking informal egghead, bookworm archaic pedagogue Origin Mid 16th century: from French académique or medieval Latin academicus, from academia (see academy). Rhymes alchemic, endemic, epidemic, pandemic, polemic, totemic Definition of academic in US English: academic adjectiveˌakəˈdemikˌækəˈdɛmɪk 1Relating to education and scholarship. academic achievement he had no academic qualifications Example sentencesExamples We need to bridge the gaps of academic achievement among all student groups. They had been taught more purposefully, coached in exam technique and raised and educated in settings where academic achievement was valued. Burrell received a 2004 Jazz Educator of the Year award from Down Beat magazine for academic achievement and excellence in jazz education. Some disabilities, such as severe autism, can profoundly limit the academic achievement of students. A second factor was the development of scientific and technical education to confer coveted academic qualifications on the captains of industry. The teachers have helped establish the school's orderly and serious atmosphere, and its culture deeply respectful of academic achievement. Sander looked at the impact of Catholic grade school education on academic achievement. All of these factors contribute significantly to their high dropout rates and poor academic achievement. But school is still only one strand of their education and academic achievement isn't everything. I chose to interview eleven Vietnamese refugee youths who received scholarships for their academic achievement. CGF academic scholarships are awarded to full-time students pursuing a college education in Canada or abroad. On the other hand, they could be very selective admitting only those of the highest academic qualifications and achievements. I had grown up in a middle-class Jewish milieu where intellect, distilled into academic achievement, was everything. His education was paid by a full academic scholarship from some charitable foundation; her education was paid by her parents. Even among disadvantaged students, many of these schools are working miracles in fostering a culture of academic achievement - on small budgets. This was the case that upheld a Washington law that gave academic scholarships to qualified students, but forbid them from using them to study theology. Admission to higher education is by academic qualifications. The length of time in a two-way bilingual program is positively correlated with student academic achievement. They also analyzed the long-term academic achievement of these students. All parents care deeply about their children's education and academic progress. Synonyms educational, scholastic, instructional, pedagogical scholarly, studious, literary, well read, intellectual, clever, erudite, learned, educated, cultured, bookish, highbrow, pedantic, donnish, cerebral, serious 1.1 Relating to an educational or scholarly institution or environment. students resplendent in academic dress Example sentencesExamples Perhaps, too, the academic environment is just too rarefied, too unrelated to a recognisable outside world, to be satirically relevant. This type of intervention does work in helping students meet short-term academic goals in the educational setting. Moving away from the academic environment was a shrewd move for Stoneham, who has trebled the amount of business she used to do at Oxford University. Some seek extra practicum experiences outside their academic departments prior to internship in an effort to compensate for the lack of breadth in their training. The sex workers who come for training have to learn what research is about, what the budgets involve, how to negotiate within an unfamiliar academic environment. The faculty and other staff and students at both International and at Sofia University welcomed him and helped him to settle into the new academic environment. When I went back and read what is being proposed, some of the language suggests that the plan is to fund early drug discovery and development in an academic environment. It might be asked why parapsychology is studied in some academic institutions. Accounting historians as a whole have yet to appreciate the important contextual differences now seen in the U.S. academic environment. It also has a job bank and links to the growing number of academic institutions with educational tracks that support the meeting profession. Pressures within the academic environment itself may subtly push professors toward viewing their students as would-be clones of themselves. He always sought an academic environment and therefore moved from Llanelli to Cardiff, the site of his final appointment and where he lived out his retirement. It was an important milestone in my own disillusionment with what often passed for ‘liberalism’ in some academic environments. The future of strategic studies in terms of academic organization will be tested in a number of respects. ‘In the majority of cases, the moderators tend to come from the academic environment or the wealthier churches,’ he said. Educational leave refers to the practice of a company allowing its employees to suspend their work to study in an academic institution with the intention of earning a degree. The question that then emerged was, ‘How does one groove to a daggy disco mix in formal wear and long academic gown?’ In an academic environment, for example, there may be less need for an easy-to-learn system because it's the user's job to learn. I did do some of this stuff when I was in school; I didn't read all of it outside the academic environment. In the academic environment, student retention and retention of alumni loyalty are important strategic goals. The author reviews the problems that have plagued history in the academic environment to dispel the popular belief that history is the same thing as the past. This gives a total of around 113 identifiable anthropologists working in Australian academic environments. And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment. For this to happen it takes longer than a few weeks of holidaying or even a few years spent studying at an academic institution. The word communication is debated in today's academic environments. When it came to the academic environment, I was a natural. 1.2 (of an institution or a course of study) placing a greater emphasis on reading and study than on technical or practical work. an academic high school that prepares students for the best colleges and universities Example sentencesExamples It's an academic course and there's lots of reading and writing. The bursary received will afford the elite sports person the opportunity to compete at the highest level while pursuing a course of academic study at the Institute. Universities have been encouraged to provide more practical training and decrease the emphasis on academic study. You receive a grade on your transcript for your internship course, just as you do for your academic courses. Wigan and Leigh College offers an industry-led academic course in fashion technology that provides the foundation for a range of careers in the industry. However a debate has simmered for years as to whether journalism has improved with the welter of academic courses which produce hundreds of graduates each year. According to Dr. Rajan, the Centre is doing advanced research, apart from conducting usual academic courses of higher studies. But then Miller began taking more traditional academic courses and found he loved being a college student. Flooding academic courses with under-prepared students may have had the net effect of driving the rigor out of these courses. And it reflects the wide range of courses available at the region's universities, alongside the more traditional academic courses associated with degree courses. Student farm managers report that academic integration - linking farm work directly to academic courses - can also be a challenge. The emphasis on completing secondary school (high school) includes academic and religious studies. The reality is that a diverse school can provide a first-class academic education. Much of what Elgar as composer put into practice went well beyond what was available to him in the textbooks or what could have been derived from an institutional academic course on music. The Education Secretary, Charles Clarke, has questioned public funding of purely academic courses. All bona fide masters insist upon the completion of an academic course of study. Here's a short snapshot of a dynamic realm that helps to generate my weekly column for the Irish Examiner as well as keep the reading material in my academic courses relevant. A variety of academic courses in foreign-area studies could precede or follow such summer programs. But in the hothouse environment of academic science the flawed theory has been allowed to survive. Without the Student Loan Scheme, university students would continue to pursue the lofty academic courses whose demise is being so sorely lamented. 1.3 (of a person) interested in or excelling at scholarly pursuits and activities. Ben is not an academic child but he tries hard Example sentencesExamples Probably won't go down well with my academic friends, but I felt I really wanted to be out doing things more in the real world than actually doing research. This is what passes for humor in an academic family. Unlike the vast majority of academic thinkers, Zizek is not worried about being ‘careless.’ Unlike most current academic thinkers, they believe the market is neither unpredictable nor random, that patterns lie buried in the mass of data that daily gushes forth. Thurschwell writes with an academic audience in mind, but this book can be enjoyed by any serious reader interested in the cultural history of the late nineteenth century. In fact, if Kaplan wants, I can be his academic groupie. Most of my academic friends engage in similar pursuits. My academic parents gave me ‘The Times’ to read at 4. I lived apart from the happy, academic families. P.S. This is an interesting read, but irritating when the academic writer makes patronising attempts to cater to an ‘ordinary’ audience. Because Sue wasn't academic, I did begin to worry about her, but once she went to Eastbourne College to study domestic science, her life changed completely. At the moment, we attract a very intellectual, academic audience and we want to make it a cultural centre which will welcome family groups. Perhaps it's difficult being academic in a non-academic environment. The dauntingly solid volumes also offer the reader an anthology of short extracts, specific illustrations of usage and enough etymological information to satisfy the more academic reader. But my stuffy academic friends each have their own store of knowledge. The academic reader will find the book a scholarly and intellectual tour de force. He was quite academic, was a great help at home and nothing was ever too much trouble for him. Lots of children are not academic but would make first-rate plumbers or electricians. It is interesting to see how academic writers ‘anonymously’ describe themselves and their works. You may not have all the book smarts that some people do, and I was certainly never an academic person. Synonyms scholarly, erudite, well educated, knowledgeable, well read, widely read, well versed, well informed, lettered, cultured, cultivated, civilized, intellectual, intelligent, clever, literary, bookish, highbrow, studious, sage, wise, sagacious, discerning, donnish, cerebral, enlightened, illuminated, sophisticated, pedantic 1.4 (of an art form) conventional, especially in an idealized or excessively formal way. academic painting Example sentencesExamples The search for art created beyond the reach of academic officialdom began with the discovery of Henri Rousseau by Picasso's circle in early twentieth century France. This painting within a painting shows a flayed figure whose blue body resembles an ecorche statuette used in academic life-study classes. However, in 1904 academic painting still dominated state-sponsored salons, and a world's fair art exhibition was inherently nationalistic. In Gerome's quasi-photographic version of academic painting, tone came first. Like impressionism, art nouveau was an International revolt against the traditional academic art style. As a result, modernism seems to germinate - naturally and inescapably - in the damp, sweetly rotten soil of academic art. Between 1940 and '42 he studied fine and commercial art, from academic nudes to lettering. When modernists eventually revolted against academic history painting, they did not uniformly abandon this august dream. Charles Russell invites us to break out of the confinements of academic art and art history in order to open our eyes a little wider and take a glimpse at what is a far greater vision. However, in style and technique the artists of the Ashcan School are now seen to have differed less from contemporary academic painting than they themselves believed. They eventually rejected their teachers' conventional ideas and academic art, yet spent years assiduously copying and assimilating the Old Masters. The point is that if one wants to find what sets Gainsborough apart from his contemporaries, even the academic Reynolds, it is best to look beyond iconological content. Such issues are not the stuff of academic painting, which operates within a closed system. In eastern Europe there is an ironic return to pandering after western Europe, as Classicism once affected the formal precepts of French academic style. ‘Raphael Replaced’ is how Tinterow describes the challenging move in French art away from the academic model. 2Not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest. the debate has been largely academic Example sentencesExamples The fact that he cannot speak or hear is just a matter of academic interest. To pursue this line of reasoning in this case is really only of academic interest and of no practical import. ‘I think my interest in hurricanes was academic until Andrew,’ Landsea said. I mean, I've got a few labs and some plans, but it's purely an academic interest for me. These are questions of more than academic interest. The outcome of a game where there is no personal investment is usually of academic interest. Parliament chiefs insist the figure is purely academic and was calculated because of the need to estimate a replacement value for all government buildings. This is something that is of more academic than practical interest. The question is of more than academic interest for players, officials and the WRU itself. I used to have what I thought of as a purely academic interest in Nazi propaganda. A loss against India will mean the champions are out of the championship and their final league match against Bangladesh will be only of academic interest. The final game against Castlebar Mitchells was of academic interest only as Ballyhaunis could not make the play-offs. This is not of mere academic interest to the Swiss. I realise this is of purely academic interest to readers. Polygamy may seem an exotic topic, but it is not just of historical or academic interest. That solution is of more than academic interest. That finding may be of more than academic interest. This discussion is not of purely academic interest, because it has arisen in a practical way in a number of different contexts in recent years. The US debate over offshoring of high skilled jobs is of more than academic interest to New Zealand. All this is of more than academic interest to the City. Synonyms theoretical, conceptual, notional, philosophical, unpragmatic, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, conjectured, suppositional, putative nounˌakəˈdemikˌækəˈdɛmɪk A teacher or scholar in a college or institute of higher education. Example sentencesExamples However, some academics pour cold water on the notion of a machine-created universe. Many of the appointees have been academics rather than professional lawyers. Along with most academics he had strong views on how research should be managed. It will also include a series of lectures from internationally-renowned academics. An insightful and intelligent collection of resources for academics and students. The last two books on offer are both compendiums of articles by different academics. Of greater significance was the conservative outlook of the University's academics. It became a bestseller on the shelves of students, academics and workers throughout the land. Only in very special cases do academics receive honorary doctorates from their own universities. Educational visits are high on the list but contrary to belief the office is not just for scholars and academics. However, it is doubtful that such a move would be well-received by students and academics. I've seen black professors asked about their experience as academics in a white profession. He is equally a loss to fellow academics and to the various committees on which he served. Everyone can benefit from the most respected academics and the best tutors. Inside Out showed anonymous copies of some of the student essays to academics. The Liberal Democrats have been targeting students and academics on campus. The survey was carried out at Glasgow Royal Infirmary by Glasgow University academics. There had been no angry questions from the academics among his audience. The book will be most suitable for research students, postdocs and academics. Up to four different lectures were held each day by academics such as Professor Anthony Grayling. Synonyms scholar, lecturer, don, teacher, educator, instructor, trainer, tutor, professor, fellow, man of letters, woman of letters, highbrow, thinker, bluestocking Origin Mid 16th century: from French académique or medieval Latin academicus, from academia (see academy).
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