scholarly

/ˈskɑlərli/

/ˈskɒləli/

Someone who's scholarly is a serious student. You can describe your studious friend who's always working on a research paper or reading a huge book as scholarly.

Use the adjective scholarly when you talk about a person who is focused on learning — in other words, a scholar. You can also describe things that relate to studying or knowledge as scholarly, like a scholarly article in a journal or a scholarly atmosphere in a library. The Old English word scolere, or "student," is the root of both scholar and scholarly, from the Latin word for school, schola.

Definitions of scholarly

1. adjective

   characteristic of scholars or scholarship
   “scholarly pursuits”

   “a scholarly treatise”

   “a scholarly attitude”

   synonyms:

   critical

   characterized by careful evaluation and judgment

   intellectual

   appealing to or using the intellect

   profound

   showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth

   academic, donnish, inkhorn, 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

   antonyms:

   unscholarly

   not scholarly

   nonintellectual

   not intellectual

   unlearned

   not well learned

   unstudious

   not studious