The phrase "a relatively academic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is somewhat scholarly or pertains to academic matters, often in comparison to something else.
Example: "The course material is a relatively academic approach to understanding the subject matter."
Alternatives: "somewhat scholarly" or "fairly academic".
But I was puzzled at first by the enthusiasm with which a relatively academic paper was seized upon by usually bullish, supposedly hardheaded business commentators.
In a bit of needless sensationalism, Ms. Carnegie begins each of her exhibitions with a relatively academic painting of her own backside that suggests a parody of Courbet's "Source of the World".
But it should be a relatively academic field, just like asteroid collision is an academic field.
Tallying them, and other minorities too, will be a tricky affair.Thankfully recalculating the population of Myanmar as a whole poses questions that are relatively academic.
"This is just a relatively intelligent, academic book.
He now leads a relatively quiet academic life at Boston University.
One is that a relatively obscure academic paper is of little concern to general-interest readers.
Nursing education was fully absorbed into universities in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s and thus is a relatively young academic discipline.
Nursing is a relatively young academic discipline which only moved en masse into the higher education sector in many countries during the 1990s.
Nouriel Roubini THEN Early last year, Mr. Roubini, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, was a relatively obscure academic who was making predictions few people believed: financial catastrophe, including a number of large institutions going bust within a couple years.
The UK has a relatively young academic workforce, with 60 per cent of teachers in the classroom under the age of 40 and 31 per cent of teachers aged 30 and younger, the report also noted.
