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

So investigators hire graduate students and buy equipment for the labs with money already in their institution’s coffers; the institution then requests the release of grant funds to pay themselves back. —Byjeffrey Mervis, science.org, 28 Jan. 2025

The family lived in Indiana with their four children until their move to Canada in 2013 so Jacob, who has autism and is a math and science prodigy, could pursue graduate studies in physics. —Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025

Born in Austin, , in 1984, Ulbricht studied physics and pursued a graduate scholarship at Penn State before developing an interest in libertarian ideals and Bitcoin, according to Wired. —Kate Nalepinski, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025

Paola, who’s working on a graduate architecture degree at Yale, was eating supper in Berlin. —Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025