scholarly

schol·ar·ly

adjective \-lē\

Definition of SCHOLARLY

: of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned, academic

Examples of SCHOLARLY

1. His writings have been recently given scholarly attention.
2. She has a scholarly interest in music.
3. a scholarly study of words and their origins

First Known Use of SCHOLARLY

1638

Related to SCHOLARLY

Synonyms

erudite, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, educated, well-read

Antonyms

benighted, dark, ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unscholarly

Related Words

civilized, cultivated, cultured; cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectual; polished, refined, well-bred; academic (also academical), bookish, didactic, didactical, inkhorn, pedantic, professorial; informed, instructed, schooled, skilled, trained; homeschooled, self-educated, self-instructed, self-taught; briefed, enlightened, informed, versed; overeducated, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic)

Near Antonyms

uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured; lowbrow, semiliterate, unintellectual; ill-bred, unpolished, unrefined; uninformed, unknowledgeable; uninstructed, unschooled, untaught, untutored; semiliterate, undereducated

Other Education Terms

baccalaureate, colloquium, corequisite, dissertation, monograph, pedant, practicum, survey course, thesis