| academician(noun, intellectual, brain, sage, doctor) |
| collegiate(adjective, learning, school, schooling, university) |
| university(noun, adjective, learning, school, intelligentsia) |
| student(noun, scholar, instructor, university, philosopher) |
| lettered(adjective, thoughtful, serious, intellectual, cultured) |
| pedagogic(adjective, dull, obscure, dry, precise) |
| professor(noun, associate, member, scholar, instructor) |
| professorial(sound, knowledgeable, cultured, educated, erudite) |
| theoretic(adjective, theoretical, thoughts) |
| egghead(noun, adjective, intellectual, sage, intelligentsia) |
| formal(adjective, established, orderly) |
| formalistic(adjective, philosophy, attitude, proper, vague) |
| highbrow(noun, adjective, rational, intelligent, serious) |
| impractical |
| ivory-tower |
| notional(adjective, philosophy) |
| pedagogical(adjective, school, educational) |
| suppositional(uncertain, doubtful, vague, supposition, theoretical) |
| unrealistic |
| faculty member(noun, expression, idiom) |