Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of study
- Practiced; self-conscious; careful; not spontaneous.
She gave a studied reply.
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He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC - datedQualified by, or versed in, study; learned.
He is well studied in theology.
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I asked a man well read, well studied in Nietzsche, what the lifelong task was. He could not say. He had only read and studied and loved Nietzsche’s books.
c. 1969, O. K. Bouwsma, “An Introduction to Nietzsche’s Letters”, in J. L. Craft, Ronald E. Hustwit, editors, Without Proof or Evidence: Essays of O. K. Bouwsma, published 1984, →ISBN, page 122I promise, if I wake up as a girl, I will make up for it by having many boys, who will be the most studied and pious boys.
2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 29
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveproduced or marked by conscious design or premeditation
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