unacademic
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- Rhymes: -ɛmɪk
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unacademic (comparative more unacademic, superlative most unacademic)
- Not academic.
- 1913, John Bertram Andrews, The American Labor Legislation Review:
- Some unacademic enthusiastic upright soul called it a pear because it happened to remind him of a pear, though it is really a cactus-berry.
- 1990, S N Mukherji, Satya Pal Ruhela, Rajendra Pal Singh, Trends in Modern Indian Education:
- They have to cope with the unacademic behaviour of faculty and administration...
- 2007, Frank Ernest Hill, Listen and Learn: Fifteen Years of Adult Education on the Air:
- But today a quiet educator entering for the first time this world of radio will be alarmed by its unacademic atmosphere. Brisk technicians will elbow him...