scholastic

Meanings

Noun

Adjective

  • Of or relating to school; academic
  • Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
  • Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός.

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