meaning of scholastics
1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
4. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
5. See the Note under Jesuit.
6. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Related Words
scholastic | scholastical | scholastically | scholasticism |
