mindmap root((博学)) learned implies academic knowledge gained by long study and research and is applicable to persons, their associations, or their writings and professional publications: members of a ~ society. scholarly implies learning and applies particularly to persons who has attained mastery of a field of knowledge or to their utterances, ideas, or writings: a ~ study of the causes of war. erudite sometimes interchangeable with learned and scholarly, can imply a love of learning for its own sake, a taste for out-of-the-way knowledge, or even mere pedanticism: a mind filled with ~ and arcane lore.