Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
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.
A member of the Academy; an academician.
A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
Academic studies.
Academic dress; academicals.
Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function.
Having a single unvaried pitch.
To speak in a monotone.
A piece of writing in one strain throughout.
A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound.