ETYM Latin academicus: cf. French académigue. Related to Academy.
1. Associated with academia or an academy.
2. Hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result.
3. Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects; SYN. donnish, pedantic.
Pertaining to university or other academy.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific
ETYM Latin collegiatus.
Of or resembling or typical of a college or college students; SYN. collegial.
ETYM Latin scholasticus, Greek, from scholazein to keep a school: cf. French scholastique, scolastique. Related to School.
1. Of or relating to schools.
2. Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism.
In regard to academic matters