SCHOLARLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scholarly mean? 

• SCHOLARLY (adjective)
  The adjective SCHOLARLY has 1 sense:

1. characteristic of scholars or scholarship

  Familiarity information: SCHOLARLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHOLARLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of scholars or scholarship

Context example:

a scholarly attitude

Similar:

academic; donnish; pedantic (marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects)

bookish; studious (characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading)

erudite; learned (having or showing profound knowledge)

Also:

critical (characterized by careful evaluation and judgment)

intellectual (appealing to or using the intellect)

profound (showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth)

Antonym:

unscholarly (not scholarly)

Derivation:

scholar (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

 Context examples 

A scholarly process that subjects an author's work or ideas to the scrutiny of one or more others who are experts in the field.

(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)

This feeds into the scholarly discussion of whether the purpose of the statues was exclusively ritualistic, practical or some combination of these.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

Although their intention was to preserve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with scholarly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She could not help but measure the professors, neat, scholarly, in fitting clothes, speaking in well-modulated voices, breathing of culture and refinement, with this almost indescribable young fellow whom somehow she loved, whose clothes never would fit him, whose heavy muscles told of damning toil, who grew excited when he talked, substituting abuse for calm statement and passionate utterance for cool self-possession.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)