academics

The word “academics” has 4 syllables: ac-a-dem-ics

It's pronounced as /ˌækəˈdɛmɪks/


What is synonym and antonym for academics?

In the thesaurus, “academics” has 61 synonyms and 11 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for academics along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for academics

  • academes
  • academicians
  • advisers
  • body
  • bookmen
  • bookworms
  • brains
  • clinic
  • college
  • corps
  • criticasters
  • critics
  • department
  • didacts
  • dinks
  • dorks
  • double-domes
  • educationists
  • educators
  • employees
  • faultfinders
  • gearheads
  • geeks
  • genii
  • geniuses
  • grinds
  • hairsplitters
  • highbrows
  • institute
  • instructors
  • intellectuals
  • lecturers
  • literati
  • mentors
  • nerds
  • organization
  • pedagogs
  • pedagogues
  • pedants
  • perfectionists
  • personnel
  • pettifoggers
  • preceptors
  • professorate
  • professors
  • profs
  • purists
  • quibblers
  • researchers
  • scholars
  • schoolteachers
  • society
  • staff
  • swots
  • teachers
  • techies
  • tutors
  • university
  • weenies
  • wonks
  • workers

Antonyms for academics

  • goldbricks
  • goof-offs
  • inability
  • incompetence
  • ineptness
  • lack
  • lowbrows
  • need
  • slackers
  • students
  • underachievers

Meanings of academics

  • noun
    1. (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
    2. 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.
    3. A member of the Academy; an academician.
    4. A student in a college.
    5. Academic dress; academicals.
    6. Academic studies.
    7. Academia.

Example Sentences

  • She excels in both academics and extracurricular activities at her school.
  • The university is known for its rigorous academics and outstanding faculty.
  • Balancing sports and academics can be challenging for many student-athletes.
  • The scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate excellence in academics.
  • His parents emphasize the importance of academics in achieving long-term success.

On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to academics, such as: academes, academicians, advisers, body, bookmen, bookworms, brains.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • dons
  • drillmasters
  • educationists
  • governesses
  • guides
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  • instructors
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  • pedagogs
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  • schoolmarms
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  • schoolteachers
  • student teachers
  • teachers
  • trainers
  • tutoresses
  • tutors

nerds

  • Brahmins
  • academics
  • blues
  • bluestockings
  • bookmen
  • bookworms
  • brains
  • dinks
  • dorks
  • double-domes
  • gearheads
  • geeks
  • genii
  • geniuses
  • grinds
  • highbrows
  • intellects
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  • longhairs
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  • pseuds
  • sages
  • scholars
  • swots
  • techies
  • thinkers
  • weenies
  • whizzes
  • wizards
  • wonks

academicians

hairsplitters

faculty

  • ability
  • academics
  • address
  • adequacy
  • adroitness
  • advisers
  • affinity
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • bent
  • bias
  • body
  • capability
  • capableness
  • capacity
  • cleverness
  • clinic
  • college
  • competence
  • competency
  • corps
  • deftness
  • department
  • dexterity
  • disposition
  • ear
  • effectiveness
  • effectualness
  • employees
  • endowment
  • equipment
  • eye
  • facility
  • feel
  • fitness
  • flair
  • form
  • forte
  • function
  • genius
  • gift
  • gray matter
  • habitude
  • hand
  • hang
  • head
  • impulse
  • inclination
  • influence
  • instinct
  • institute
  • instructors
  • intelligence
  • ken
  • knack
  • knowing way around
  • leaning
  • lecturers
  • literati
  • means
  • mentors
  • might
  • mind
  • nose
  • organization
  • partiality
  • peculiarity
  • pedagogues
  • penchant
  • personnel
  • pistol
  • potency
  • potential
  • power
  • predilection
  • predisposition
  • proclivity
  • professorate
  • professors
  • proficiency
  • profs
  • propensity
  • property
  • prowess
  • puissance
  • quality
  • readiness
  • reason
  • researchers
  • resourcefulness
  • resources
  • right stuff
  • scholars
  • sense
  • skill
  • society
  • specialism
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • staff
  • staying power
  • strength
  • stuff
  • talent
  • tendency
  • touch
  • turn
  • tutors
  • understanding
  • university
  • usefulness
  • way
  • what it takes
  • wherewithal
  • wits
  • workers

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