adj. 25B6; adjective
an earnest, scholarly man : LEARNED, erudite, academic, well read, widely read, intellectual, literary, lettered, educated, knowledgeable, highbrow; studious, bookish, donnish, bluestocking, cerebral; N. Amer. informal pointy-headed; archaic clerkly.
a scholarly career : ACADEMIC, scholastic, pedagogic.
uneducated, illiterate.