Scholar vs. Scholastic — What's the Difference?

A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly those that develop expertise in an area of study. A scholar may also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher or researcher at a university or other higher education institution.

Of or relating to schools; academic

A learned person.

Often Scholastic Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scholasticism.

A specialist in a given branch of knowledge

Overly subtle or pedantic

One who attends school or studies with a teacher; a student.

Often Scholastic A Scholastic philosopher or theologian.

A student who holds or has held a particular scholarship.

A dogmatist or pedant.

A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.

(philosophy) A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.

A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.

Of or relating to school; academic

A learned person; a bookman.

(philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism

(Singapore) someone who received a prestigious scholarship

Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.

Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.

A man of books.

Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.

A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

See the Note under Jesuit.

Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

A student who holds a scholarship

A Scholastic philosopher or theologian

Of or relating to schools;

Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism;