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stud·ied

 (stŭd′ēd)
adj.
1. Resulting from deliberation and careful thought: a studied decision.
2. Lacking spontaneity; contrived: a studied smile.
3. Learned; knowledgeable.

stud′ied·ly adv.
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studied

(ˈstʌdɪd)
adj
1. carefully practised, designed, or premeditated: a studied reply.
2. an archaic word for learned
ˈstudiedly adv
ˈstudiedness n
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stud•ied

(ˈstʌd id)

adj.
1. marked by conscious effort; not spontaneous: studied simplicity.
2. carefully deliberated: a studied approval.
3. learned.
[1520–30]
stud′ied•ly, adv.
stud′ied•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.studied - produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; "a studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied insult"- V.L.Parrington
affected, unnatural - speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
uncontrived, unstudied - not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm"
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studied

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studied

adjective
Resulting from deliberation and careful thought:
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Translations

studied

[ˈstʌdɪd] ADJ (gen) → estudiado, pensado; [calm, insult] → calculado, premeditado; [pose, style] → estudiado, afectado
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studied

[ˈstʌdid] adj (= deliberate) → étudié(e), calculé(e)
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studied

pret, ptp of study
adj (= carefully considered) reply(gut) durchdacht, wohlüberlegt; simplicitybewusst, ausgesucht; prose, stylekunstvoll; (= deliberate)berechnet; calm, politenessgewollt; insultbeabsichtigt, bewusst; avoidancesorgfältig; poseeinstudiert; elegancegekünstelt; voicegewählt; to maintain a studied silencewohlüberlegt schweigen
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studied

[ˈstʌdɪd] adj (calm, simplicity) → studiato/a, calcolato/a; (insult) → premeditato/a, intenzionale; (pose, style) → affettato/a
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References in classic literature ?
In spite of their long years of disciplined education, he was finding himself their intellectual equal, and the hours spent with them in conversation was so much practice for him in the use of the grammar he had studied so hard.
The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours long became a chronic complaint with him.
Why, Ruth studied Saxon, became clever in it, - that was two years ago, - and all that she remembers of it now is 'Whan that sweet Aprile with his schowers soote' - isn't that the way it goes?"
They let us find it out for ourselves afterwards." Olney paused for effect, then added, "And what they didn't tell us was that every gentleman should have studied Latin, but that no gentleman should know Latin."
There are the military advantages of which you spoke, I said; and in all departments of knowledge, as experience proves, any one who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker of apprehension than one who has not.
I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself.
"I've studied as hard all the term as I possibly could and I've pored over that geometry until I know every proposition in the first book off by heart, even when the letters ARE changed.
Moreover, he was a sad, grave, serious child, who studied ardently, and learned quickly; he never uttered a loud cry in recreation hour, mixed but little in the bacchanals of the Rue du Fouarre, did not know what it was to dare alapas et capillos laniare , and had cut no figure in that revolt of 1463, which the annalists register gravely, under the title of "The sixth trouble of the University." He seldom rallied the poor students of Montaigu on the cappettes from which they derived their name, or the bursars of the college of Dormans on their shaved tonsure, and their surtout parti-colored of bluish-green, blue, and violet cloth, azurini coloris et bruni , as says the charter of the Cardinal des Quatre-Couronnes.
He studied the science of herbs, the science of unguents; he became an expert in fevers and in contusions, in sprains and abcesses.
In all this we have characteristic differences between the behaviour of animals and the behaviour of matter as studied by physics.
"The psychological conception [of insanity] is based on the view that mental processes can be directly studied without any reference to the accompanying changes which are presumed to take place in the brain, and that insanity may therefore be properly attacked from the standpoint of psychology"(p.
In like manner, as a question of methodology, the laws of living bodies are to be studied, in the first place, without any undue haste to subordinate them to the laws of physics.