Synonyms of graduate

graduate

adjective

as in postgraduate

of or relating to schooling done after earning a bachelor's degree

The team is conducting graduate research on the effects of climate change.

She plans to begin graduate school in the fall.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• postgraduate
• collegiate
• educative
• educational
• scholarly
• pedagogic
• pedagogical
• professorial
• bookish
• nerdy
• curricular
• academic
• geeky
• donnish
• tweedy
• pedantic
• instructive
• nerdish
• scholastic
• intellectual

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonacademic
• noneducational
• extracurricular
• noncollegiate
• unscholarly
• cocurricular
• unacademic

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of graduate

Lowry’s role at the museum has been, more than anything else, a CEO — one with graduate degrees in art history from Harvard but a CEO nonetheless. —Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025

At Harvard University, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked the visas of three graduate students and two recent graduates. —Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2025

Zia co-coordinated our largest ever Debate Watch Party, drawing ~500 students, primarily consisting of graduate students. —Olivia Antigua, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

Lisa Lowe and Jamie Leonard, graduate students at UCLA, along with Sanjay Mohanty, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA, shared the findings at the American Chemical Society's 2025 meeting in San Diego last month. —Gretchen Eichenberg, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025