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academic
has definitions from the fields of work,education
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[ adjective ] (education) associated with academia or an academy
Examples "the academic curriculum" "academic gowns" Used in print (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)In all `` degree '' courses in interior_design a number of `` academic '' or `` general studies '' courses are included . It is only fair to demand that teachers of courses in English , history , psychology and_so_on be as well informed in matters of art , especially interior_design , as are the art_teachers educated in the academic subjects . The proper correlation of the art with the academic can be achieved only_if this standard is observed . The matter of sympathy of the academic professors for art objectives also must be taken_into_account . It is a sort_of academic ring-around-a_rosy and you solve it . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
Examples "an academic discussion" "an academic question" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)At this date , it seems probable that the name of Serge_Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History , as an effective Traditionalist , who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation , and used it as it served his purpose ; yet was never caught_up in it - never a slave to its academic dialectics . (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)In a bold , sometimes careless , form there is nothing academic ; all is seen and felt and experienced , the observation is sharp and the imagination lively . (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)But the discussion was academic . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past , he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja_vu . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (work,education) an educator who works at a college or university
Synonyms Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion , sedulously fostered by all_too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of . It was not even in writing Latin epigrams , sometimes bawdy ones , or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics , or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus 's philological study of the New_Testament . |
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