scholar vs scholastic

scholastic vs scholar

scholar and scholastic both are nouns.

scholar is not an adjective while scholastic is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
scholar	Yes	No	No	No
scholastic	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, scholastic is a hyponym of scholar; that is, scholastic is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scholar:

scholar: a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
scholastic: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Other hyponyms of scholar include academician, schoolman, alum, grad, graduate, Arabist, bibliographer, bibliophile, book lover, booklover, Cabalist, Kabbalist, doctor, Dr., goliard, historian, historiographer, humanist, initiate, learned person, pundit, savant, Islamist, licentiate, Masorete, Masorite, Massorete, master, mujtihad, musicologist, bookworm, pedant, philomath, philosopher, post doc, postdoc, reader, Renaissance man, generalist, Renaissance man, salutatorian, salutatory speaker, scholiast, medieval Schoolman, Schoolman, Shakespearean, Shakespearian, Sinologist, theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer, valedictorian, valedictory speaker, Vedist.

scholar (noun)	scholastic (noun)
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines	a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
a student who holds a scholarship

scholar (adjective)	scholastic (adjective)
	of or relating to schools
	of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism

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