scholarly

adjective

1 an earnest, scholarly man:

learned, erudite, academic, well read, widely read, intellectual, literary, lettered, well educated, knowledgeable, cultured, cultivated, highbrow;

studious, bookish, donnish, bluestocking, cerebral;

informal egghead;

North American, informal pointy-headed;

archaic clerkly.

▷antonyms uneducated, illiterate, ignorant.

2 a young woman aspiring to a scholarly career:

academic, educational, scholastic, professorial, pedagogic, pedagogical.

3 a scholarly account of the period:

well researched, painstaking, studious, thorough, detailed, thoroughgoing, comprehensive, exhaustive;

well argued, well informed, well reasoned, authoritative.