Dictionary 1. (a.) Showing the qualities of a learned person\; as, a scholarly essay or critique\.2. (adv.) In a scholarly manner. Thesaurus 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 |