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Academic vs Unacademic - What's the difference?

academic | unacademic |

As adjectives the difference between academic and unacademic

is that academic is while unacademic is not academic.

As a noun academic

is .

academic

English

Alternative forms

* academick (obsolete) * acad, (abbreviation) * Academic

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.
  • Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.
  • * academic courses -
  • * academical study -
  • Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to scientific or vocational; having no practical importance.
    • I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
  • (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
  • So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
  • Subscribing to the architectural standards of (Vitruvius).

    • Derived terms

    * academic advantage * academic disadvantage * academic institution * academic question * academic degree * academic discipline

    Related terms

    * academia * academical * academically * academically disadvantaged * academicals * academism * academist * academy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The multiplexed metropolis , passage=Academics
  • A member of the Academy; an academician.
  • *, II.4.2.ii:
    • Carneades the academick , when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].
  • (pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals.
  • (pluralonly) Academic studies.

    • Derived terms

    See also

    * scientific

    References

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    unacademic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not academic.
  • * 1913 , John Bertram Andrews, The American Labor Legislation Review
    • Some unacademic enthusiastic upright soul called it a pear because it happened to remind him of a pear, though it is really a cactus-berry.
  • * 1990 , S N Mukherji, Satya Pal Ruhela, Rajendra Pal Singh, Trends in Modern Indian Education
    • They have to cope with the unacademic behaviour of faculty and administration...
  • * 2007 , Frank Ernest Hill, Listen and Learn: Fifteen Years of Adult Education on the Air
    • But today a quiet educator entering for the first time this world of radio will be alarmed by its unacademic atmosphere. Brisk technicians will elbow him...