Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
- 2adjective
Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (See Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
- 3adjective
Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
- 4noun
One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
- 5noun
See the Note under Jesuit.
- 6noun
a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
- 7noun
a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
- 8adjective
of or relating to schools
"scholastic year"
- 9adjective
of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism
"scholastic philosophy"
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