UNSCHOLARLY Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

unscholarly

adjective

Definition of unscholarly

as in nonacademic

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as in ignorant

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Recent Examples of unscholarly Rankings influence many disciplines and can mutate values as well as goals, leading academics to such unscholarly behaviors as plagiarizing others’ work, unintentionally manipulating data, or outright falsifying it. — Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026 In 2015, Anton recalls, Marini began sending long emails to his colleagues arguing that Trump, in his unscholarly way, might have the potential to force the constitutional order back into its proper limits. — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022 Some might find my use of historical sources to be selective and unscholarly. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 July 2022

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscholarly

Adjective

These sessions can focus on nonacademic life skills, like public speaking and entrepreneurship, as well as art and physical education.

— Gerald K. LeTendre, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
Earlier this month, the Center released its annual sector analysis finding that, for the first time in its surveys, new microschool founders valued nonacademic learning over academic gains.

— Kerry McDonald, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of nonacademic

Adjective

Also, the incorrect assumption among those who either are ignorant of the real economic realities or just don’t care and just want to pander to their own districts.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
The old worst dressed lists could be cruel, sexist, culturally ignorant, and spectacularly misguided.

— Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of ignorant

Adjective

Though digital learning tools are still widely used, bans on noneducational tech in school are now commonplace.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 28 Aug. 2026
But the premise is more or less an excuse to make monologue jokes, which Bargatze did about everything from Severance’s confusing story line to the decidedly noneducational programming offered on the Learning Channel.

— Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025

Definition of noneducational

Adjective

Ira, in my very uneducated opinion, there are eight teams in the East that could finish first, and any of those eight could be eighth.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
As a peripheral community grows around them, this lawless terrain is suddenly subject to boundaries and contracts and taxes; both uneducated and illiterate, Isak and Inger are ill prepared for such societal evolution.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of uneducated

Adjective

Berry is responsible for their son's private school tuition, 100% of his extracurricular activities and his health care.

— Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
The grades reflect each school’s performance across factors such as academics, teachers, resources, extracurricular activities and college preparation.

— Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of extracurricular

Adjective

Those who are illiterate, above the age of 70, and between 16 and 18 years of age may choose whether to exercise their right.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026
As a peripheral community grows around them, this lawless terrain is suddenly subject to boundaries and contracts and taxes; both uneducated and illiterate, Isak and Inger are ill prepared for such societal evolution.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of illiterate

Adjective

Busby Berkeley Wrongly taken as a mere ornamentalist—even worse, sometimes mistaken for a fascist—Busby Berkeley was an erotic sociobiologist, an unlettered philosopher in visual music.

— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
The characters include a temperamental goat, a sweet-natured monk, an unlettered orphan boy and an intelligent young girl whose destiny is to dethrone a king.

— Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021

Definition of unlettered

Adjective

Despite the claims of any number of charlatans who prey on the American brand of cuddly benighted ignorance, the universe will not manifest an alternate reality for anyone who simply wishes for it with sufficient longing.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Could Kleist’s conjecture provide a key to their seeming vacancy, their resignation, their helplessness, suggesting that in their benighted condition lies spiritual perfection?

— Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of benighted

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