academic Synonyms:
adj
1 educational, pedagogical, scholastic.
2 bookish, brainy, clever, erudite, highbrow, intelligent, learned, scholarly, studious, well-read.
3 academic study. abstract, conjectural, hypothetical, accelerate impractical, intellectual, notional, pure, speculative, theoretical, unpractical. .n inf egghead, high brow, intellectual, scholar, thinker.