ACADEMICAL

Definitions: ACADEMICAL

ACADEMICAL

Adjective

1. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

2. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ACADEMICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references)

"ACADEMICAL" is a common misspelling or typo for: academically, academicals.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Elegance	Adjective: elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: ACADEMICAL

English words defined with "ACADEMICAL": Opponency ♦ Portionist. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ACADEMICAL": Cap and Gown. (references)

Etymologies containing "ACADEMICAL": Opponency. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A dissertation on the nature and extent of the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, being a valedictory address delivered to the students of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, at the close of the academical year on 22d April, 1824 (reference) A History of Academical Dress in Europe (reference) Academical dress from the Middle Ages to the present day, including Lambeth degrees (reference) Academical Dress of British and Irish Universities (reference) Introduction to Roman Law: In Twelve Academical Lectures (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"ACADEMICAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "ACADEMICAL" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	53.33%	8	124,375
Noun (proper)	40%	6	143,867
Noun (common)	6.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Expression using "ACADEMICAL": academical uniform. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "ACADEMICAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		akademik (academic, academician), teorik (academic, armchair, paper, speculative, theoretic, theoretical), letrar (academic, bookish, literary), klasik (academic, classic, classical). (various references)

Arabic		‏اللباس الجامعى (academical uniform). (various references)

Bulgarian		сух (academic, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), университетски (academic, collegiate, university), чисто теоретически (academic), традиционен (academic, classic, conservative, hereditary, set, traditional), академически (academic), академичен (academic, collegiate), абстрактен (abstract, abstractive, academic, discrete, noetic, transcendental), педантичен (academic, bookish, donnish, finical, literal, mandarin, niminy-piminy, pedantic, pettifogging, precise, priggish, punctilious, punctual, scholastic, starchy, stuffy). (various references)

Chinese		学术 (Academic). (various references)

Czech		akademický (academic, scholarly). (various references)

German		akademische (academics, scholastical), akademisch (academic, academically, collegiate, learned, Longhair, scholastic, university). (various references)

Greek		ακαδημαϊκόσ (academic, academician, collegiate, scholastic). (various references)

Hungarian		akadémiai (academic), elméleti (academic, bookish, ideological, platonic, pure, speculative, theoretic, theoretical), egyetemi (academic, university). (various references)

Italian		accademico (academic, academician, scholastic). (various references)

Korean		학구. (various references)

Manx		scoillaragh. (various references)

Pig Latin		academicalay.(various references)

Portuguese		acadêmico (academic, academician, scholastic, student), universitário (scholastic), teórico (bookish, doctrinal, speculative, theoretic, theoretical, theoretician, theorist, unpractical), relativo � escolástica (scholastic), pouco prático (closet, unpractical), formal (formal, modality, outward voyage), escolar (educational, oilfish, scholastic, scourer), escolástico (scholastic, schoolman). (various references)

Romanian		academic (academic, academically, scholastic), universitar (academic, collegiate, scholastic, university), teoretic (abstract, academic, notional, notionally, speculative, theoretical), scolastic (academic, scholastic, scholastically), pedant (academic, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, far fetched, inkhorn, milliner, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, prig, priggish, priggishly, prissy, prolix, punctilious, scholastic), clasicizant (academic, academician, classic-like). (various references)

Russian		академический (academic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		akademski (academic, scholarly), univerzitetski (academic, parietal, university), teorijski (theoretical). (various references)

Spanish		académico (academic, academician). (various references)

Swedish		akademisk (academic, formal, graduate, scholarly, scholastic). (various references)

Turkish		akademik (academic), teorik (abstract, academic, pure, speculative, technical, theoretic, theoretical), kuramsal (abstract, academic, doctrinaire, hypothetic, hypothetical, notional, pure, speculative, theoretic, theoretical), bilimsel (academic, erudite, scholarly, scientific). (various references)

Ukranian		універсітетський (academic), академічний. (various references)

Welsh		athrofaol (academic, collegiate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ACADEMICAL": academically. (additional references)
	Words containing "ACADEMICAL": unacademically. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-i-l-m"
	-1 letter: acclaimed.
	-2 letters: academia, academic, aceldama, camailed.
	-3 letters: acclaim, alameda, alcaide, camelia, cicadae, claimed, decimal, declaim, malacca, medical.
	-4 letters: acacia, acedia, aecial, alcade, alcaic, cadmic, caecal, calami, calmed, camail, celiac, cicada, cicala, cicale, lamiae, macled, mailed, malice, medial.
	-5 letters: acmic, aecia, ailed, aimed, alcid, amice, amide, caeca, camel, cecal, clade, claim, clime, decal, email, ideal, ileac, laced, lamed, lamia, limed, maced, macle, maile, malic, mecca, medal, media, medic, melic.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-i-l-m"
	+2 letters: academically, decalcomania.
	+3 letters: decalcomanias.
	+4 letters: unacademically.
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