Word
Scholastic
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
scho-las-tic
Definition
- a. - Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or
schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic
learning.
- a. - Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the
Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology;
scholastic philosophy.
- a. - Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or
needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
- n. - One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the
schools.
- n. - See the Note under Jesuit.
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