n. 25B6; adjective
an academic institution : EDUCATIONAL, scholastic, instructional, pedagogical.
his academic turn of mind : SCHOLARLY, studious, literary, well read, intellectual, clever, erudite, learned, educated, cultured, bookish, highbrow, pedantic, donnish, cerebral; informal brainy; dated lettered.
the debate has been largely academic : THEORETICAL, conceptual, notional, philosophical, hypothetical, speculative, conjectural, suppositional, putative; impractical, unrealistic, ivory-tower.
25B6; noun a group of Russian academics : SCHOLAR, lecturer, don, teacher, tutor, professor, fellow, man/woman of letters, thinker, bluestocking; informal egghead, bookworm; formal pedagogue.