Synonyms

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3. (all in ancient cosmogony)

a. chaos, primal chaos, pandemonium, discord, confusion,
b. hell, inferno, infernal pit, Hades, perdition; netherworld, underworld, lower world, bowels of the earth,

academic, adj.1. educational, educatory, instructional, pedagogical, academical; collegiate, college, university, scholastic, school; formal, institutional.
2. All U.S.

humanistic, classical, philosophical, scientific, cultural; humanities, liberal arts, literature, language, fine arts, philosophy, natural orsocial science.
3. theoretical, hypothetical, abstract, notional, ideational, speculative, Archaic, speculatory; unrealistic, impractical, ivory-towerish, utopian, visionary, starry-eyed, quixotic, chimerical; irrelevant, nongermane, beside the point, immaterial, inappropriate, useless, vain.
4. learned, scholarly, erudite, lettered, literary, well-read, studious, Derog.

bookish; cultured, artistic, Inf. arty, SI.artsy, Inf.longhair orlonghaired; well-educated, conversant, versed, well-versed, knowledgeable; intellectual, cerebral, brainy, highbrow orhigh-browed; pedantic, pedagoguish, professorial, donnish, pompous.
5. conventional, conforming, traditional, orthodox; standard, accepted, ordinary, usual; tradition-bound, rule-bound, uncreative, unimaginative, literal; prosaic, commonplace, trite, stale, hackneyed; vapid, empty, dull, boring.
-n. 6. scholar, student, pupil, collegian, co-ed; professor, doctor, master, tutor, fellow, Brit,

don, instructor, preceptor, lector, lecturer, docent, teacher, pedagogue, educator; schoolman, scholastic, academician, academe, gownsman.
7. savant, pundit, man of letters, one of the cognoscenti, one of the literati, member of the intelligentsia; intellectual, thinker, Rare. Derog.

phrontist, literate, bibliophile; aesthete, Inf.longhair, bluestocking; pedant, pettifogger, hairsplitter; bookworm, highbrow, Inf.egghead, Inf.walking encyclopedia, Inf.know-it-all.

academician, n.fellow, scholar, savant, man of letters, artist, scientist, member of an academy. See - academic (def.

6,7). academy, n.1. secondary school, high school, Brit,

grammar school, (in France)

lyc£e; preparatory school, Inf.prep school, U.S.

private school, Brit. public school, boarding school, day school, seminary, institute, finishing school; classical school, Latin school, (in Germany)

gymnasium.
2. school, college, university, educational establishment, Disparaging,

phrontistery orphrontisterion; conservatory, polytechnic.
3. learned association orinstitution, athenaeum, fellowship of artists orscientists; club, coterie, circle.
4. cognoscenti, literati, intelligentsia, standard-setters, pace-makers, leaders, avant-gardists, trendsetters; Usu. Disparaging,

the establishment, Inf.the powers-that-be.

accede, v. 1. (usu. fol. by

to) assent, consent, grant, allow, let, permit, approve of, go along with.
2. concede, acquiesce, yield, submit, comply, adhere, conform.
3. (usu. of an office, title, or position)

attain, assume, succeed to, enter upon, inherit; arrive at, reach, come to.

accelerate, v. 1. advance, promote, further, forward, help onward, facilitate; progress, succeed, thrive, prosper, flourish, grow; develop, improve, increase, add to, augment.