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scholarly

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schol·ar·ly  (sklr-l)
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of scholars or scholarship: scholarly pursuits; a scholarly edition with footnotes. See Synonyms at learned.

scholar·li·ness n.
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Adj.1.scholarly - characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude"
critical - characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings"
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 - showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth; "the differences are profound"; "a profound insight"; "a profound book"; "a profound mind"; "profound contempt"; "profound regret"
unscholarly - not scholarly

scholarly
adjective learned, academic, intellectual, lettered, erudite, scholastic, well-read, studious, bookish, swotty (Brit. informal) He was an intellectual, scholarly man.
philistine, uneducated, middlebrow, lowbrow, unlettered, unintellectual, unacademic
Translations
scholarly [ˈskɒləlɪ] ADJ (= studious) → erudito, estudioso; (= pedantic) → pedante
scholarly [ˈskɒlərli] adj
[person] → érudit(e)
[book, article, journal] → savant(e)
[research, study, debate] → savant(e)
scholarly
adjwissenschaftlich; (= learned)gelehrt; interestshochgeistig; he’s not at all scholarlyer hat keinen Hang zum Hochgeistigen; (in his approach) → er geht überhaupt nicht wissenschaftlich vor; his way of life was very scholarlyer führte das Leben eines Gelehrten
scholarly [ˈskɒləlɪ] adjdotto/a, erudito/a


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Naturally, I never got any scholarly use of the languages I was worrying at, and though I could once write a passable literary German, it has all gone from me now, except for the purposes of reading.
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