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n. an educator who works at a college or university

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adj. associated with academia or an academy; "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"

adj. hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"

academic, donnish, pedantic

adj. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

university

n. a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees

college

n. an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

Scholastic

n. a Scholastic philosopher or theologian

intellectual, intellect

n. a person who uses the mind creatively

institute

n. an association organized to promote art or science or education

graduate

n. a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts

collegiate, collegial

adj. of or resembling or typical of a college or college students; "collegiate living"; "collegiate attitudes"; "collegiate clothes"

pedagogical, pedagogic

adj. of or relating to pedagogy; "pedagogical significance"

scholastic

adj. of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"

conjectural

adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"

educated

adj. possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

fastidious

adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"

abstractive

adj. of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"

conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious

adj. based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"

notional, speculative

adj. not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"

metaphysical

adj. highly abstract and overly theoretical; "metaphysical reasoning"

theory-based

adj. based in theory rather than experiment; "theory-based arguments and positions"

bookish, studious

adj. characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child"

erudite, learned

adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"

nonacademic, non academic

adj. not pertaining to a college, academy, school or other educational institution

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