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Scholastic vs Unscholastic - What's the difference?

scholastic | unscholastic |

As adjectives the difference between scholastic and unscholastic

is that scholastic is (scholastic) while unscholastic is not scholastic.

As a noun scholastic

is (scholastic).

scholastic

English

Alternative forms

* * (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (philosophy) a member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to school; academic
  • * This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
  • (philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
    • (John Locke)
  • Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

    • Derived terms

    * scholasticism * scholastically

    Related terms

    * scholar * academic

    unscholastic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not scholastic.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Anna Chapin Ray, title=Teddy: Her Book, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Both characteristics were so well developed that the hours they spent in the schoolroom were chiefly devoted to exploits of a most unscholastic nature. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Lucy H. M. Soulsby, title=Stray Thoughts for Girls, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You are not free, yet, to be as useful at home as you would like to be; your mother has to do without a daughter, to a large extent, or to avail herself of one with the uncomfortable feeling that the daughter is losing valuable time thereby, and probably is considering herself a martyr in having to do unscholastic duties. }}