| 单词 | academic |
| 释义 | 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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