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Meanings of studious in English

Characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading.

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Examples for "bookish"
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And Amazon in particular hasn't traditionally engendered much goodwill with bookish types.
NY Magazine
2
It's a bit bookish for me, but a fine thing to study.
The Name of the Wind
3
Books are most solacing when the limitations of bookish wisdom are perceived.
The Book of Delight and Other Papers
4
Did she huff paint before speaking in front of large, bookish crowds?
Ebony
5
He wasn't just a bookish marine biologist, he was a genuine healer.
Shock
Usage of studious in English
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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom.
Essays — First Series
2
They have nothing suggestive of the studious chamber and the midnight lamp.
The Letters of Robert Burns
3
If only you'd been this studious when you were young, she remarked.
Hunter's moon: a novel
4
Bergoglio, she said in an interview, was a studious and kind brother.
Reuters
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Garrison candidly admiring in his gaze, his visitor studious and slightly uncertain.
A Husband by Proxy
6
Beulah is a splendid spot for a studious man to lodge in.
Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
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The most studious, the most successful, must recognize that there yet remain
The Pleasures of Life
8
Either actual war, or constant studious preparation for war, actually never ceases.
Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation
9
He is the studious one, and Polly is very proud of him.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
10
I believe you will, cried Tetlow, tears in his prominent studious eyes.
The Grain of Dust: A Novel
11
Until they'd met, he'd been the classic nerd, both studious and shy.
Do you take this rebel?
12
Inside, the room was such as fitted a studious bachelor of means.
Miss Bretherton
13
His whimsical gray eyes had become studious and detached from our surroundings.
The Boss of Little Arcady
14
It is true that all sensible women think all studious men mad.
The Club of Queer Trades
15
But there was to be no more of that studious leisure now.
The Lost Continent
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This period would, perhaps, be sufficient for the formation of studious habits.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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