'Studious' definitions:
Definition of 'studious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to fix the television set"
adjective
Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child" [syn: bookish, studious]
Definition of 'Studious'
From: GCIDE
- Studious \Stu"di*ous\, a. [L. studious: cf. F. studieux. See Study.]
- 1. Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies. [1913 Webster]
- You that are so studious Of my affairs, wholly neglect your own. --Massinger. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Planned with study; deliberate; studied. [1913 Webster]
- For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented? --Rambler. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
- But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. --Milton. [1913 Webster] -- {Stu"di*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Stu"di*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'studious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorbed,
- absorbed in,
- abstruse,
- academic,
- advised,
- aforethought,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- autodidactic,
- bookish,
- buried in,
- careful,
- caught up in,
- civilized,
- college-bred,
- collegiate,
- considered,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- deep,
- designed,
- devoted,
- devoted to,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- educated,
- encyclopedic,
- engaged,
- engrossed,
- engrossed in,
- erudite,
- graduate,
- immersed in,
- industrious,
- intent,
- intent on,
- involved,
- learned,
- lettered,
- literate,
- lost in,
- mandarin,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- monomaniacal,
- monopolized,
- obsessed,
- occupied,
- owlish,
- painstaking,
- pansophic,
- pedantic,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- postgraduate,
- premeditated,
- preoccupied,
- prepense,
- professorial,
- profound,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolboyish,
- schoolgirlish,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sophomoric,
- studentlike,
- studied,
- studying,
- submerged in,
- swept up,
- taken up with,
- thorough,
- thought-out,
- tireless,
- totally absorbed,
- undergraduate,
- wise,
- wrapped in,
- wrapped up in