anti-academic








adjective

  1. of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially 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, especially at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.
  7. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.

noun

  1. a student or teacher at a college or university.
  2. a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
  3. (initial capital letter) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
  4. academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.

adjective

  1. belonging or relating to a place of learning, esp a college, university, or academy
  2. of purely theoretical or speculative interestan academic argument
  3. excessively concerned with intellectual matters and lacking experience of practical affairs
  4. (esp of a schoolchild) having an aptitude for study
  5. conforming to set rules and traditions; conventionalan academic painter
  6. relating to studies such as languages, philosophy, and pure science, rather than applied, technical, or professional studies

noun

  1. a member of a college or university
adj.

1580s, “relating to an academy,” also “collegiate, scholarly,” from Latin academicus “of the Academy,” from academia (see academy). Meaning “theoretical, not practical, not leading to a decision” (such as university debates or classroom legal exercises) is from 1886. Academic freedom is attested from 1901. Related: Academically.

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