scholarly

[skol-er-lee]

adjective

1. of, like, or befitting a scholar.

   scholarly habits.

2. having the qualities of a scholar.

   a scholarly person.

3. concerned with academic learning and research.

adverb

1. like a scholar.

Other Word Forms

• scholarliness noun
• pseudoscholarly adjective
• quasi-scholarly adjective
• superscholarly adjective
• unscholarly adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of scholarly¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; scholar + -ly

Example Sentences

Despite his scholarly assiduity, Metcalfe is moving down an errant path that will never square the facts with lived experience.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

I wondered if I needed to be scholarly.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

“There’s been a lot of rigorous scholarly studies and thinking behind all of the different conservation aspects of the site,” said Luce.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

For the literary circles I travel in, I sometimes wonder if watch-wearers think it makes them look more intellectual, scholarly.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, popular and scholarly treatments of white Southerners as overwhelmingly conservative and racially regressive abound.

Read more on Salon

Related Words

• erudite 
• intellectual 
• learned