Adjective academic has 3 senses
- academic - associated with academia or an academy; "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"
- academic - hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"
Antonym: applied (indirect, via theoretical)
- academic, donnish, pedantic - marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
Antonym: unscholarly (indirect, via scholarly)
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Noun academic has 1 sense
- academician, academic, faculty member - an educator who works at a college or university
--1 is a kind of educator, pedagogue
--1 has particulars: professor, prof
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