What does studious mean?

studious means "marked by care and effort". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in studious?

studious has 3 syllables: stu-di-ous. The stress falls on "stu". In IPA it is /ˈstudiəs/.

What is another word for studious?

Close synonyms include bookish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is studious a common word?

studious is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

studious — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
marked by care and effort
“made a studious attempt to fix the television set”
Similarcareful
2.
characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading
“a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket”
“a quiet studious child”
Synonymsbookish
Similarscholarly

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