academic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)
Ancient Greek -εια (-eia)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)
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Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)der.
Medieval Latin acadēmicusder.
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Latin acadēmicusbor.
French académiqueder.
English academic
From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) or Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy. By surface analysis, academy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more academic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most academic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: academick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: acad
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: acad.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: Academic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: academics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: academick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: acad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: acad.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: Academic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
pos: adj
examples: the academic sect or philosophy
gloss: Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
pos: adj
examples: But unhappily, by too short a view of things, you have been apt to mistake the completion of your academic courses for the completion of your theologic studies: and then, by a false modesty, have despaired of knowing more than you would suffer those august places of your education to teach you.
It was left to the motor industry, half a century later, to destroy Oxford's academic calm.
gloss: In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
pos: adj
examples: Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate both academic and vocational competence attainment.
Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial.
gloss: Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
pos: adj
examples: I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
the distinction is academic
an academic question
The character of the process by which the views of the intellectuals influence the politics of tomorrow is therefore of much more than academic interest.
"Anyway, we have the triffids controlled well enough so it's an academic point and scarcely worth raising."
The exact sequence and timing of the subsequent explosions and inflight fires are not known and are, in fact, somewhat academic with respect to the probable cause of the accident.
But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.
In theory, a fully intact reverse osmosis membrane should be capable of removing lipopolysaccharide pyrogens […] In practice, this distinction is academic, because pyrogens do not replicate, and as long as the product water is […]
In practice this distinction is academic, as any small nodule on the surface of a thyroidectomy specimen should be examined histologically. If carcinoma is suspected or proven, the whole surface of the specimen may be marked[…]
The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic.
For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest.
As a general matter, we will not consider a protest where the issue presented has no practical consequences with regard to an existing federal government procurement, and thus is of purely academic interest.
[…]; if you do not know, or care to know, much about critical theory, the writings of Butler are academic in the unflattering sense of that term. But in their world, they are, if not royalty, lords of the realm.
SCP-3125 had skirmished with ω-0 before, but it had always been unclear how much information about ω-0 it retained between skirmishes. In fact it was unclear, fundamentally speaking, how SCP-3125 thought at all. Its behaviour was inconsistent, unpredictable and frightening; records of its activities were cognitohazardous, discouraging close analysis.
In the end, the question proved to be academic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike, the dense web of mutual memory which had held the Task Force together since its formation tore loose. More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years.
gloss: Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
pos: adj
examples: I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.
gloss: Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
pos: adj
gloss: Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
pos: adj
gloss: So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
pos: adj
gloss: A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
usually
gloss: A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
pos: noun
examples: Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.
gloss: A member of the Academy; an academician.
pos: noun
examples: Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].
gloss: A student in a college.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Academic dress; academicals.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Academic studies.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Many spoke of an intense fear of failing one’s academics at university, which can both be highly motivating to secure academic success (sometimes at the cost of socialising), but can also immobilise one’s desire to try harder as it can be rather disappointing if one does not succeed. […] Many autistic students commonly reported viewing academics to be the most important aspect of university life and had a strong sense of persistence and self-determination to succeed. […] However, while some autistic students viewed socialising to be a source of threat that could jeopardise their academic success if indulged in, others highlighted the importance of social connections at university beyond that of academics.
Related words: academia
academical
academically
academically disadvantaged
academicals
academism
academist
academy
scientific
Derived words: academented
academic advantage
academic art
academic bulimia
academic costume
academic degree
academic disadvantage
academic discipline
academic freedom
academic institution
academicise
academicism
Academicism
academicist
academicize
academicness
academic quarter
academic question
academic weapon
academic year
acafan
acafandom
antiacademic
Blackademic
blackademic
interacademic
pracademic
protoacademic
pseudoacademic
quackademic
quasi-academic
subacademic
superacademic
unacademic
non-academic
nonacademic
academicked
academicking
dark academic
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَكَادِيمِيّ
roman: ʔakādīmiyy
lang: Bulgarian
word: академичен
roman: akademičen
lang: Dutch
word: academisch
lang: Finnish
word: akateeminen
lang: Finnish
word: teoreettinen
lang: German
word: akademisch
lang: Greek
word: ακαδημαϊκός
roman: akadimaïkós
lang: Hungarian
word: elméleti
lang: Hungarian
word: bölcsészeti
lang: Icelandic
word: fræðilegur
lang: Ido
word: academiala
lang: Irish
word: acadúil
lang: Italian
word: accademico
lang: Japanese
word: 人文的な
roman: jinbunteki na
lang: Japanese
word: 非現実的な
roman: higenjitsuteki na
lang: Korean
word: 학문적인
roman: hakmunjeogin
lang: Korean
word: 학술적인
roman: hakseuljeogin
lang: Norwegian
word: akademisk
lang: Romanian
word: academic
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ака̀демскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шко̀лскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: тео̀ретскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: akàdemskī
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: škòlskī
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: teòretskī
lang: Tagalog
word: pantalisikan
lang: Tagalog
word: talisiknin
lang: Welsh
word: academaidd
lang: Arabic
word: متقيد بالقوانين
roman: mutaqayyid bil-qawānīn
lang: Arabic
word: ملتزم بالقوانين
roman: multazim bil-qawānīn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 學院派 /学院派
roman: xuéyuànpài
lang: Finnish
word: akateeminen
lang: Hungarian
word: akadémista
lang: Korean
word: 형식적인
roman: hyeongshikjeogin
lang: Korean
word: 전통적인
roman: jeontongjeogin
lang: Polish
word: akademicki