scholarly

CIDE DICTIONARY

scholarly, a. 

 Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

scholarly

abstruse, academic, bookish, brainy, civilized, cross-disciplinary, cultivated, cultured, deep, devoted to studies, diligent, disciplinary, donnish, dryasdust, educated, egghead, encyclopedic, erudite, graduate, graduate-professional, highbrowed, intellectual, interdisciplinary, learned, lettered, literate, longhair, mandarin, owlish, pansophic, pedagogical, pedantic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, postgraduate, professional, professorial, profound, rabbinic, scholastic, schoolish, scientific, studious, taught, technical, technicological, technological, trained, wise

ROGET THESAURUS

scholarly

Learning

N learning, acquisition of knowledge &c, acquisition of skill, acquirement, attainment, edification, scholarship, erudition, acquired knowledge, lore, wide information, self-instruction, study, reading, perusal, inquiry, apprenticeship, prenticeship, pupilage, pupilarity, tutelage, novitiate, matriculation, docility, aptitude, studious, scholastic, scholarly, teachable, docile, apt &c, industrious, at one's books, in statu pupillari, a lumber-house of books in every head, ancora imparo!, hold high converse with the mighty dead, lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.