scholarly

American  

[skol-er-lee] / ˈskɒl ər li /

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.

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adverb

1. like a scholar.

Other Word Forms

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

Etymology

Origin of scholarly

First recorded in 1590–1600; scholar + -ly

Example Sentences

Since the late 1970s, a number of biographies of Mansfield have sought to dismantle the sanitized version of her life promoted by Murry, and a scholarly industry devoted to restoring her unadulterated voice has flourished.

From The Wall Street Journal

The lectures were scholarly achievements in their own right.

From The Wall Street Journal

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has been rightly known until now for her immense scholarly work, establishing terms like “intersectionality” and “critical race theory” that now have grown into entire fields of study.

From Los Angeles Times

On a broad and somewhat scholarly level, “Autobiography of Cotton” details Mexico’s postindependence labor movements and land reforms.

From The Wall Street Journal

Skepticism toward large equity incentives for founder-executives, once largely confined to scholarly legal debate, played a visible role in how the Chancery Court assessed fairness in Musk’s case.

From Barron's

Related Words

• erudite
• intellectual
• learned