(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Academic is used to describe things that relate to the work done in schools, colleges, and universities, especially work which involves studying and reasoning rather than practical or technical skills.
Their ~ standards are high...
I was terrible at school and left with few ~ qualifications...
ADJ: ADJ n
~ally
He is ~ally gifted...
ADV
2.
Academic is used to describe things that relate to schools, colleges, and universities.
...the start of the last ~ year...
I’d had enough of ~ life.
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
Academic is used to describe work, or a school, college, or university, that places emphasis on studying and reasoning rather than on practical or technical skills.
The author has settled for a more ~ approach...
ADJ
4.
Someone who is ~ is good at studying.
The system is failing most disastrously among less ~ children.
ADJ
5.
An ~ is a member of a university or college who teaches or does research.
= scholar
N-COUNT
6.
You can say that a discussion or situation is ~ if you think it is not important because it has no real effect or cannot happen.
Such is the size of the problem that these arguments are purely ~.
= theoretical
ADJ