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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Studious \Stu"di*ous\, adjective [L. studious: cf. F. studieux. See {Study}.]
1. Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.
2. Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative. --Locke.
3. Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.
You that are so studious Of my affairs, wholly neglect your own. --Massinger.
4. Planned with study; deliberate; studied.
For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented? --Rambler.
5. Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade. [Poetic]
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. --Milton. -- {Stu"di*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Stu"di*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
studious
adjective
1: marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to fix the television set"
2: characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child" [syn: {bookish}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "studious": absorbed, absorbed in, abstruse, academic, advised, aforethought, assiduous, attentive, autodidactic, bookish, buried in, careful, caught up in, civilized, college-bred, collegiate, considered, contemplating, contemplative, cultivated, cultured, deep, designed, devoted, devoted to, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, educated, encyclopedic, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, erudite, graduate, immersed in, industrious, intent, intent on, involved, learned, lettered, literate, lost in, mandarin, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, obsessed, occupied, owlish, painstaking, pansophic, pedantic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, postgraduate, premeditated, preoccupied, prepense, professorial, profound, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, sedulous, single-minded, sophomoric, studentlike, studied, studying, submerged in, swept up, taken up with, thorough, thought-out, tireless, totally absorbed, undergraduate, wise, wrapped in, wrapped up in
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