unacademic
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈkædəmɪk/
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no académico
- She enjoyed painting in an unacademic way, focusing more on expression than technical skill.
Examples
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The speaker's unacademic style made the lecture more engaging for everyone in the audience.
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Liberal arts classes have to be pedagogically calculated and unacademic in aim, while intellectually substantive, to win these students' attention, much less their interest.
Academic text (1992) -
The crowd was large, unruly, and unacademic, and he clearly drew strength from it.
Academic text (2007) -
Yet it's also incorrect to assume that poetry can exist as a purely academic enterprise, not simply because the arguments to the contrary above are unconvincing, but because it is precisely the perception that the art form is unacademic that allows it to flourish in the university in the first place.
Academic text (2011) -
Andie and I had launched J.E.S.; Vatican II and all its everyday excitement was coming to a thunderous climax, and I was heavily involved with Koren in working to reinvent the Theology Department from a sort of unacademic catechism class to a serious academic enterprise.
Academic text (2014) -
His unacademic approach to history captivated readers who preferred storytelling over dry facts.
Synonyms
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Not related to school or study
Not academic or related to formal study
Not related to school or formal learning
Something that is not about school, teaching, or learning
Not careful or serious enough for academic work
Antonyms
How Academic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unacademic joins un- ('not') with academic (related to academy, 'place of learning'). So the word describes things that are outside or not typical for school or scholarly places, like hands-on jobs or everyday learning.