studious

[stoo-dee-uhs, styoo-] / ˈstu di əs, ˈstyu- /

ADJECTIVE

scholarly, attentive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bookish contemplative diligent earnest industrious reflective thoughtful

WEAK

academic assiduous bookworm busy careful eager grubbing hard-working intellectual learned lettered meditative sedulous serious well-informed well-read

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorant inactive lazy lethargic negligent stupid thoughtless unthoughtful

WEAK

inattentive unscholarly

Example Sentences

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"Most Chinese people are quite studious and forward-looking, so when confronted with new things, they might have stronger feelings" of so-called FOMO, he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

As a girl, Petrou was studious and strong-willed; in a 2018 profile in The Wall Street Journal, her mother recalled Petrou getting into a heated “intellectual disputation” with their rabbi at Sunday school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

You could be assigned a slovenly party animal who makes your life miserable or a studious bookworm you don’t see all semester.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

A studious kid who loved writing poetry, she invented her alter-ego at the age of 11, after being viciously bullied in school.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

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—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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