scholastic

• Scholastic
• scholastick (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /skəˈlæstɪk/, Rhymes: -æstɪk

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /skɵˈlasʈɪk/, /ˈskɔləsʈɪk/

scholastic (plural scholastics)

1. (philosophy) A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.

scholastic (comparative more scholastic, superlative most scholastic)

1. Of or relating to school; academic

   This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.

2. (philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:

     And hence it is that men, even when they are baffled and silenced in this scholastic way, are seldom or never convinced , and so brought over to the conquering side

3. Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

• scholar
• academic