studied

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of study. Use this form for learning you did at an earlier time.

   She studied her notes before the big test.

   We studied together at the library last night.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Done in a careful, planned way instead of naturally or by accident.

   Like an actor who practices looking surprised instead of really feeling it.

   She answered with a studied calm that did not feel real.

   His studied smile looked planned, not happy.

   Similardeliberate, calculated, affected, contrived, feigned

   Oppositenatural, spontaneous, unaffected, genuine

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3. 3
   adjectivedated

   Having a lot of knowledge gained from years of learning and reading.

   Like a wise teacher who has read thousands of books.

   Her grandfather was a studied man who read books in many languages.

   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”Here, studied means knowing a lot about a subject from reading and study.

   Similarlearned, erudite, scholarly, knowledgeable, lettered

   Oppositeignorant, unlearned, uneducated

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