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Definition: Studious |
StudiousAdjective1. Marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to fix the television set". 2. Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "studious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Studious \Stu"di*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression studious: compare to the French expression studieux. See Study.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: StudiousSynonym: bookish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Learning | Study; be studious; Adjective: |
Adjective: studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile; (willing); apt; industrious. | |
Thought | Adjective: thinking; Verb: thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Studious |
| English words defined with "studious": bookish, Bookman ♦ Farfetch ♦ Overstudious ♦ Questuary ♦ studiously, Symmetrian, Symmetrist ♦ unstudious. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "studious": learning. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "studious": Symmetrian. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Studious solitude of future doctor. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr.. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and heaven to the virtuous. |
William Penn | Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | And for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Studious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.36% of the time. "Studious" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.36% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Noun (plural) | 1.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "studious": studious-looking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
studious universal | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "studious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që merret me shkencë, i zellshëm (diligent, hard, industrious, laborious, sedulous, strenuous, unsparing, zealous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مولع بالدراسة, مواطب, مواظب على الدروس, تواق (anxious, craving, forward, hungry, longing, raring, solicitous, striven, thirsty, wishful, wistful), جاد (dead earnest, earnest, meaningful, reliable, responsible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | старателен (assiduous, careful, painstaking, patient, thorough), усърден (assiduous, diligent, hard, industrious, mettled, mettlesome, painstaking, patient, sedulous, strenuous, thorough, warm), обмислен (advised, calculated, cold blooded, conscious, considered, deliberate, deliberative, measured, premeditated, thought-out, voluntary), преднамерен (aforethought, conscious, deliberate, intentional, loaded, premeditated, prepense, purposive, studied, voluntary, wilful, willful), прилежен (assiduous, diligent, industrious, sedulous, steady), подчертан (broad, emphasized, emphatic, marked, pointed, positive, pronounced, underlined, underscored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "功 (studiousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | snaživý (assiduous, diligent, strenuous), vìdychtivý, pilný (assiduous, diligent, industrious, sedulous, urgent), přièinlivý (diligent, hardworking, painstaking), přemýšlivý (thinking, thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پرزحمت (Arduous, Bothersome, Laborious, Troublesome, Troublous), مشتاق (Agog, Anxious, Avid, Desirous, Eager, Earnest, Enthusiast, Enthusiastic, Fervid, Fond, Hippie, Hungry, Keen, Perfervid, Raring, Solicitous, Thirsty, Wilful, Wishful, Wistful), کوشا (Diligent, Industrious, Scrambler, Sedulous, Striver, Trier), کتاب خوان , ساعی (Active, Assiduous, Diligent, Industrious, Laborious, Painstaking, Sedulous), زحمتکش (Grub, Plodder, Sufferer, Toiler, Workingman), خواهان (Actor, Candidate, Complainant, Desirous, Fond, Wishful), جاهد, درس خوان , بلیغ (Strenuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tiedonhaluinen (eager to learn), opinhaluinen (eager to learn), ahkera (busy, diligent, hardworking, hard-working, industrious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | studieux, sérieux (staid, steady, straight), assidu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fleißig (assiduous, diligent, diligently, hard working, hardworking, industrious, keen, painstaking, studiously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μελετηρόσ (bookish), φιλομαθήσ (fond of learning), επιμελήσ (assiduous, attentive, careful, diligent, mindful, painstaking, sedulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתמי" (abiding, dilligent, enduring, hourly, industrious, lasting, permanent, perpetual, persistent, sedulous, unremitting), מחושב (calculated, considered, studied, well thought out), שק"ן (assiduous, diligent, industrious, sedulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szorgalmas (assiduous, busy, diligent, hard working, hardworking, hard-working, industrious, laborious, sedulous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | studioso (scholar, scholarly, student), studiato (affected, labored, laboured, studied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 勉強家 (diligent student, studious person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | べ"きょうか (diligent student, studious person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 면학. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | studeyragh, lioaragh (bookish, book-learned, lettered, well-read, well-read person), lhaihagh (bookish, legible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udiousstay zeloso (assiduous, convinced, earnest, full of zeal, industrious, zealous), estudioso (bookish, bookman, scholar), diligente (active, convinced, diligent, earnest, hardworking, in action, industrious, laborious, painstaking, prompt, sedulous), aplicado (applied, assiduous, diligent, engineering, hardworking, industrious, intent, painstaking, sedulous). (various references) studios (bookish, diligent, industrious), de studiu. (various references) прилежный (assiduous, diligent, hard-working, sedulous). (various references) stuidearra. (various references) studiozan. (various references) estudioso (bookish, inquisitive), calculado (calculated, figured, studied), asiduo (assiduous, eager, emulative, habitue, regular, sedulous, zealous), aplicado (applied, attentive, obsequious). (various references) flitig (assiduous, busy, diligent, earnest, frequent, hard working, industrious). (various references) รอบคอบ, ขยันเรียน. (various references) yapmacık (affected, artificial, campy, chichi, constrained, counterfeit, factitious, false, feigned, genteel, plummy, pretended, put on, rose water, set, shifty, sophisticated, studied, theatrical, unnatural), hevesli (ambitious, anxious, desirous, eager, earnest, enthusiastic, full of zeal, game, great, greedy, hellbent, intent, itching, itchy, keen, responsive, spirited, zealous), gayretli (arduous, as keen as mustard, assiduous, diligent, eager, fervent, full of pep, full of vim, hardworking, industrious, persevering, sedulous, strenuous, vigorous, zealous), dikkatli (argus-eyed, assiduous, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, gingerly, heedful, intense, intent, mindful, particular, regardful, rigorous, scrupulous, sleepless, solicitous, thoughtful, wary, watchful), üzerinde çalışılmış (studied), çalışkan (active, arduous, assiduous, diligent, earnest, energetic, full of action, hardworking, industrious, labored, laborious, laboured, sedulous, strenuous). (various references) старанний (affectionate, assiduous, careful, diligent, duteous, operose, painstaking, particular, scholarly, searching, sedulous, willing), обміркований (advised, circumspect, considered), зайнятий наукою. (various references) siêng học chăm lo, sốt sắng cẩn trọng, chăm học, có suy nghĩ cố tình (studied), cố ý (aforethought, consciously, deliberate, knowingly, prepense, set, studied). (various references) myfyrgar (contemplative), darllen.gar (fond of reading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | skholastikos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | studiose, studiosis, studiosissime. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "studious": studiously, studiousness, studiousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Studious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stadious, studeous, studieous, sturious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "studious" (pronounced stuw"dēus) |
| 4 | -d ē u s | commodious, fastidious, hideous, insidious, invidious, melodious, odious, radius, tedious. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, felonious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, harmonious, hilarious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, instantaneous, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, meritorious, miscellaneous, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, pancreas, penurious, percutaneous, precarious, previous, punctilious, sanctimonious, Sartorius, serious, simultaneous, spontaneous, spurious, supercilious, unceremonious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-o-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: studios. | |
-2 letters: odists, studio. | |
-3 letters: doits, duits, dusts, odist, ousts, situs, studs, suits. | |
-4 letters: diss, dits, doit, doss, dost, dots, duit, duos, dust, ouds, oust, outs, sits, sods, sots, sous, stud, suds, suit, tods, toss, tuis, udos. | |
-5 letters: dis, dit, dos, dot, dui, duo, ids, its, ods, oud, out, sis, sit, sod, sos, sot, sou. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-o-s-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: outstudies, stridulous, studiously. | |
+3 letters: industrious, subductions, sudatoriums. | |
+4 letters: discourteous, disputatious, stridulously, studiousness, subauditions, unfastidious. | |
+5 letters: discontinuous, industriously. | |
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