scholasticEnglishOxford English Thesaurusscholastic adjective 1 Walter's scholastic achievements: academic, educational, school, scholarly. 2 scholastic attempts to distinguish between the various religious denominations: scholarly, learned, academic, erudite, donnish; pedantic, over-subtle, overprecise, hair-splitting, precisionist; informal nitpicking; archaic overnice.scholastic Oxford Dictionary of English