Studious means loving study and spending long serious hours at it. A studious child, studious silence, studious habits.
It also means deliberate and careful, as in studious politeness — where the care is so evident it suggests effort, and often a little insincerity. The two senses share the idea of taking pains. Note study, from a Latin word meaning eagerness.
1adjectivestudiousLoving study and working hard at it.
“She was a quiet, studious girl who spent every lunch break in the library.”
2adjectivedeliberateDeliberate and careful.
“He made a studious effort to avoid looking at his ex-wife during the wedding.”
studious is a quality of application.
Latin studiosus comes from studium, eagerness or application, from studere, to be eager.
Latin
studiōsus
English, today
studious
From Latin studiōsus. First recorded in English c. 1350.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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