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unscholarly

unscholarly

7.0
Not careful or serious enough for academic work
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈskɑːlɚli/
  • Formal
translation icon : no académico
  • The professor criticized the article for its unscholarly approach to the research topic.

Examples

  • And while law schools were to a great extent quite unscholarly cadre training facilities in the old GDR, there were some curricular advantages.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Rather, it is a matter of the extent of Bloom's unscholarly pomposity.

    Academic text (1991)

  • (Unscholarly choice, she thought, for her professor.)

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Thomas was dismissed abruptly in an unscholarly manner, i.e., without scientific investigation, from the University of Chicago due to a scandal covered extensively by the newspapers.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Say, "reporter Lynda Hurst challenged Rushton's scholarship on the ground that his assumptions about the relative dating of the emergence of the races were based on an article reporting DNA sequence findings published in a supposedly popular, unscholarly journal, Science."

    Academic text (1990)

  • Many students relied on unscholarly sources that lacked proper citations for their assignments.

  • In his unscholarly arguments, he failed to engage with any credible academic literature.

Synonyms

nonscholarly
vsunscholarly
5.3

Not academic or related to formal study

is about lacking proper research quality and careful methods
unacademic
vsunscholarly
6.8

Not interested in or good at formal school study

focuses on failing to meet high study standards or rigorous methods

Antonyms

academic
383 4.2

Connected to schools, colleges, university study, or research

scholarly
  • Formal
47 5.6

Showing careful study and deep knowledge about a subject

How Scholarly

erudite
  • Formal
12 8.4
scholarly
  • Formal
47 5.6
unscholarly
  • Formal
7.0
informal
98 3.1
nonacademic
1 4.4

Surface Forms

unscholarly positive

Morphology

unscholarly = scholarly (transparent) = un + scholar + ly

The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the adjective 'scholarly', making the meaning directly understandable.

Etymology

Unscholarly is made of un- meaning 'not' and scholarly, which comes from scholar, a person who studies and writes about ideas. So unscholarly means 'not like a scholar' and describes work or writing that is not careful or does not follow academic rules.