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nonscholastic

nonscholastic

7.0
Not related to school or formal learning
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɒnskəˈlæstɪk/
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  • His weekends are filled with nonscholastic pursuits, including hiking and painting.

Examples

  • We advocate making the curriculum as nonscholastic and as personally and functionally relevant as possible.

    Academic text (1998)

  • She prefers nonscholastic activities such as volunteering and community service over traditional academics.

  • The community center offers many nonscholastic programs like sports and arts for children.

Synonyms

nonacademic
vsnonscholastic
1 4.4

Not related to school or study

is the general label for anything outside formal schooling or academic contexts
nonscholarly
vsnonscholastic
5.3

Not academic or related to formal study

is used more broadly for anything outside schools and formal education
unacademic
vsnonscholastic
6.1

Not connected with university study or school work

is about lack of relation to schools and formal education rather than suitability
noneducational
vsnonscholastic
4.5

Something that is not about school, teaching, or learning

covers nonconnection with schools and academic institutions not only teaching
unscholarly
vsnonscholastic
  • Formal
7.0

Not careful or serious enough for academic work

means unrelated to schools and formal education rather than low quality

Antonyms

scholastic
11 5.1

About education and schools

How Scholastic

scholastic
11 5.1
educational
443 2.7
after-school
233 2.0
nonscholastic
7.0
informal
98 3.1

Surface Forms

nonscholastic positive

Morphology

nonscholastic = scholastic (transparent) = non + scholastic

The productive negating prefix 'non-' attached to the clear adjective 'scholastic' yields an immediately inferable opposite meaning.

Etymology

Nonscholastic breaks into non- meaning 'not' and scholastic which comes from the same root as school and scholar, meaning 'school' or 'learning'. So, nonscholastic means 'not related to school or formal study', like after-school sports, hobbies, or community activities.