scholastic

[ skuh-las-tik ]
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adjectiveAlso scho·las·ti·cal.
  1. of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.

  2. of or relating to secondary education or schools: a scholastic meet.

  1. of or relating to the medieval schoolmen.

noun
  1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a schoolman, a disciple of the schoolmen, or an adherent of scholasticism.

  2. a pedantic person.

  1. Roman Catholic Church. a student in a scholasticate.

Origin of scholastic

1
1590–1600; <Latin scholasticus<Greek scholastikós studious, learned, derivative of scholázein to be at leisure to study. See school1, -tic

Other words from scholastic

  • scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • an·ti·scho·las·tic, adjective, noun
  • an·ti·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • hy·per·scho·las·tic, adjective
  • hy·per·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • non·scho·las·tic, adjective
  • non·scho·las·ti·cal, adjective
  • non·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • post·scho·las·tic, adjective
  • pre·scho·las·tic, adjective
  • pro·scho·las·tic, adjective
  • pseu·do·scho·las·tic, adjective
  • pseu·do·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • qua·si-scho·las·tic, adjective
  • qua·si-scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • sem·i·scho·las·tic, adjective
  • sem·i·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • un·scho·las·tic, adjective
  • un·scho·las·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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How to use scholastic in a sentence

  • The era of the purely scholastic occupation and no other for the scholastically trained woman has come to an end.

    The Women of Tomorrow | William Hard
  • It may interest you to know that this high school is ranked very high scholastically.

    The Seven-Branched Candlestick | Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel
  • He insisted on the fact that his candidate was working his way through college, and would always be near the top scholastically.

    The Guarded Heights | Wadsworth Camp
  • What a pity it is that so powerful and idiomatic a writer should be so incorrect grammatically and scholastically speaking!

  • The short scholastically phrased address cannot be rendered in any modern fashion: Domino specialiter sua singulariter.

British Dictionary definitions for scholastic

scholastic

/ (skəˈlæstɪk) /


adjective
  1. of, relating to, or befitting schools, scholars, or education

  2. pedantic or precise

  1. (often capital) characteristic of or relating to the medieval Schoolmen

noun
  1. a student or pupil

  2. a person who is given to quibbling or logical subtleties; pedant

  1. (often capital) a disciple or adherent of scholasticism; Schoolman

    • a Jesuit student who is undergoing a period of probation prior to commencing his theological studies

    • the status and position of such a student

  2. a formalist in art

Origin of scholastic

1
C16: via Latin from Greek skholastikos devoted to learning, ultimately from skholē school 1

Derived forms of scholastic

  • scholastically, adverb

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