scholastic

[ skuh-las-tik ]

adjective

1. of or relating to schools, school, scholars, or education:

   scholastic attainments.

2. of or relating to secondary education or schools: school:

   a scholastic meet.

3. pedantic.
4. of or relating to the medieval schoolmen.

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a schoolman, a disciple of the schoolmen, or an adherent of scholasticism.
2. a pedantic person.
3. Roman Catholic Church. a student in a scholasticate.

scholastic

/ skəˈlæstɪk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or befitting schools, scholars, or education
2. pedantic or precise
3. often capital characteristic of or relating to the medieval Schoolmen

noun

1. a student or pupil
2. a person who is given to quibbling or logical subtleties; pedant
3. often capital a disciple or adherent of scholasticism; Schoolman
4. 1. a Jesuit student who is undergoing a period of probation prior to commencing his theological studies
   2. the status and position of such a student
5. a formalist in art

Derived Forms

• schoˈlastically, adverb

Other Words From

• scho·lasti·cal·ly adverb
• anti·scho·lastic adjective noun
• anti·scho·lasti·cal·ly adverb
• hyper·scho·lastic adjective
• hyper·scho·lasti·cal·ly adverb
• nonscho·lastic adjective
• nonscho·lasti·cal adjective
• nonscho·lasti·cal·ly adverb
• postscho·lastic adjective
• prescho·lastic adjective
• proscho·lastic adjective
• pseudo·scho·lastic adjective
• pseudo·scho·lasti·cal·ly adverb
• quasi-scho·lastic adjective
• quasi-scho·lasti·cal·ly adverb
• semi·scho·lastic adjective
• semi·scho·lasti·cal·ly adverb
• unscho·lastic adjective
• unscho·lasti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of scholastic¹

1590–1600; < Latin scholasticus < Greek scholastikós studious, learned, derivative of scholázein to be at leisure to study. See school ¹, -tic

Word History and Origins

Origin of scholastic¹

C16: via Latin from Greek skholastikos devoted to learning, ultimately from skholē school ¹

Example Sentences

He ultimately thought he had outgrown scholastic competition.

From Time

As peers stacked their schedules with ambitious scholastic extracurriculars, Calandrelli maintained good grades and did activities she loved but, in her words, “wasn’t very good at.”

From MIT Technology Review

I had an idea for a movie and I had a meeting with Scholastic Publishing because they have a movie division.

From The Daily Beast

“There was a nice music to his writing,” says Lee Kravitz, his longtime editor at Scholastic and then at Parade.

From The Daily Beast

The scholastic pitches finished, the campers returned to their doll designs.

From The Daily Beast

Museum shows about collectors are usually either scholastic social history or obvious sucking-up to future donors.

From The Daily Beast

This study associates higher body mass with lower scholastic achievement.

From The Daily Beast

We have seen enough elsewhere of the multiplication of Commentaries on the Sentences of the Lombard and other scholastic works.

From Project Gutenberg

At these early types of Poor Law schools the children received both scholastic and industrial training.

From Project Gutenberg

The mass of newspaper readers are not, in a scholastic sense, well-educated persons.

From Project Gutenberg

His real education, as distinct from his scholastic one, had been immensely advanced thereby.

From Project Gutenberg

It is not the purpose of this volume to offer a mere textbook or a scholastic essay on historical events.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• learned
• scholarly