/skɑˈlɚli/ - [skalerlee] -
We found 6 definitions of scholarly from 5 different sources.
Adjectivescholarly, scholarlier, scholarliest |
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scholarly - characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude" | ||
unscholarly not scholarly | ||
critical marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude" | ||
intellectual appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature" | ||
profound situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea"; "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded caverns" | ||
donnish, pedantic, academic hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question" | ||
bookish, studious characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child" |