Definition of scholarly Scholarly

/skɑˈlɚli/ - [skalerlee] -

We found 6 definitions of scholarly from 5 different sources.

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What does scholarly mean?

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WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

scholarly, scholarlier, scholarliest

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"
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • scholarly (a.)
    Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.
  • scholarly (adv.)
    In a scholarly manner.

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  • scholarly
    Of, or related to scholars or scholarship.

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  • scholarly, adjective.

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