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ultrascholastic

ultrascholastic adjective: extremely scholastic.

Adjective

ultrascholastic (comparative more ultrascholastic, superlative most ultrascholastic)

  1. extremely scholastic
    • The orientation of education is toward the French-type ultrascholastic approach, which stresses unproductive and prestigious literary attainments, which are irrelevant to the development needs of a desperately poor pastoral and agricultural economy.1973, United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs, The Drought Crisis in the African Sahel: Hearing..., page 128

Forms of ultrascholastic

comparativemore ultrascholastic
superlativemost ultrascholastic

Origin of ultrascholastic

From ultra- + scholastic.

Questions about ultrascholastic

What does ultrascholastic mean?
Ultrascholastic means extremely scholastic.
What part of speech is ultrascholastic?
Ultrascholastic is an adjective.

Words near ultrascholastic in the dictionary

  1. ultrascaffolds
  2. ultrascan
  3. ultrascanned
  4. ultrascanning
  5. ultrascans
  6. ultrascholastic
  7. ultrascientific
  8. ultrasculpture
  9. ultrasecret
  10. ultrasecure
  11. ultrasecurity

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