STUDIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does studious mean? 

• STUDIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective STUDIOUS has 2 senses:

1. marked by care and effort

2. characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading

  Familiarity information: STUDIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUDIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by care and effort

Context example:

made a studious attempt to fix the television set

Similar:

careful (exercising caution or showing care or attention)

Derivation:

studiousness (diligent study)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading

Synonyms:

bookish; studious

Context example:

a quiet studious child

Similar:

scholarly (characteristic of scholars or scholarship)

Derivation:

studiousness (diligent study)

study (applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading))

 Context examples 

On her right, her only neighbor was a studious looking lad absorbed in a newspaper.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Thus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I smiled at the notion; it seemed to me at the time to be humourous; and I made my preparations with the most studious care.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I returned it to her; she received it quietly, and without saying anything she was about to relapse into her former studious mood: again I ventured to disturb her—Can you tell me what the writing on that stone over the door means?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For one night, Fanny, for only one night, if it be a sacrifice; I am sure you will, upon consideration, make that sacrifice rather than give pain to one who has been so studious of your comfort.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Doctor Strong regarded him with a puzzled and doubting look, which almost immediately subsided into a smile that gave me great encouragement; for it was full of amiability and sweetness, and there was a simplicity in it, and indeed in his whole manner, when the studious, pondering frost upon it was got through, very attractive and hopeful to a young scholar like me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I visited many other apartments, but shall not trouble my reader with all the curiosities I observed, being studious of brevity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then he avoided the tender subject altogether, wrote philosophical notes to Jo, turned studious, and gave out that he was going to 'dig', intending to graduate in a blaze of glory.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the like particulars, which, however insignificant they may appear to groveling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of learning or of style.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)