Scholastic

Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
  • (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
  • (n.) One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
  • (n.) See the Note under Jesuit.

Compare scholastic with other words:

scholastic vs. scholiastic

scholastic vs. whipster

scholar vs. scholastic

scholastic vs. scholastically

academic vs. scholastic

scholastic vs. school

christian vs. scholastic

scholastic vs. scholasticism

budge vs. scholastic

collector vs. scholastic

aristotelian vs. scholastic

scholarship vs. scholastic

paper vs. scholastic