nonacademic
adjective, noun
nonacademic is an adjective meaning “Not academic; not related to academia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-O-N-A-C-A-D-E-M-I-C and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does nonacademic mean?
adjective
- 1
Not academic; not related to academia.
noun
- 1
One who is not an academic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nonacademic?
Nonacademic has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nonacademic
- non-academic
- nonacademics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nonacademic?
Nonacademic appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).