studied
adjUK /ˈstʌd.id/ · US /ˈstʌd.id/
1
Practiced; self-conscious; careful; not spontaneous.
- She gave a studied reply.
- 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:
2
Dated Qualified by, or versed in, study; learned.
- He is well studied in theology.
- 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 122:
1 more example
- I 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:
- Derived terms
- misstudied, nonstudied, studiedly, studiedness, understudied, unstudied