scholastic

scholastic is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
2. adjective. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
3. adjective. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
4. noun. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
5. noun. See the Note under Jesuit.
6. noun. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

   Synonyms: bookworm, pedant

7. noun. a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
8. adjective. of or relating to schools

   "scholastic year"

9. adjective. of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism

   "scholastic philosophy"

Synonyms

bookworm, pedant

Common word forms

scholastics, scholastical, scholasticly

Words from these letters

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