sub-academic
əˈdɛm adjective
1.
of or pertaining 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.
noun
8.
a student or teacher at a college or university.
9.
a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
10.
( initial capital letter ) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
11.
academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | belonging or relating to a place of learning, esp a college, university, or academy |
| 2. | of purely theoretical or speculative interest: an 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; conventional: an academic painter |
| 6. | relating to studies such as languages, philosophy, and pure science, rather than applied, technical, or professional studies |
| —n | |
| 7. | a member of a college or university |
| aca'demically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
academic
1580s, "relating to an academy," also "collegiate, scholarly," from L. academicus, 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.
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