scholar - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• assimilator
• learner
• scholar

More generic

• individual
• mortal
• person
• somebody
• someone
• soul

More specific

• dweeb
• grind
• memoriser
• memorizer
• nerd
• quick study
• sponge
• swot
• tutee
• wonk

Noun

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

Synonyms

• bookman
• scholar
• scholarly person
• student

More generic

• intellect
• intellectual

More specific

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

Noun

a student who holds a scholarship

Synonyms

• scholar

More generic

• educatee
• pupil
• student

More specific

• Rhodes scholar

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