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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of graduate

The quiet of the pandemic brought natural sounds to the foreground for Maddie Cusimano, who was then a graduate researcher of auditory perception at M.I.T.’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. —Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024

Separately, graduate students are working with Progressive to explore an AI model to assist with personalization, prediction, and recommendations. —Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024

With a $5 million grant, Morgan will now offer graduate and postgraduate degrees in nuclear engineering. —Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 20 Nov. 2024

Anne Michaud is taking graduate nursing classes at the University of Connecticut, and works as a nurse in Connecticut oncology centers. —Anne Michaud, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2024