What's the difference between overstudious and studious?
Overstudious
Definition:
(a.) Too studious.
Example Sentences:
Studious
Definition:
(a.) Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.
(a.) Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Planned with study; deliberate; studied.
(a.) Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade.
Example Sentences:
(1) V&A museum project boosted by billionaire's donation Read more The studious reproduction of museum exhibits has long been a fundamental part of art education – a means of honing drawing skills and offering deeper ways of looking.
(2) This was an easier job than it might have been because Moore studiously cultivated a bad-boy image via any outlet available to him.
(3) Though the FBI’s request studiously avoids asking Apple to directly decrypt Farook’s data or hand over his key, the debate is the same: can law enforcement compel tech companies to provide the means to access consumers’ data?
(4) Cameron studiously avoided discussing the morality of the Great War, or the long Conservative historiography, including Alan Clark, Niall Ferguson and Andrew Roberts, that has condemned the war as a catastrophic failure by a political and military elite – the conscripted lions notoriously led by the callous and unthinking donkeys dining behind the trenches.
(5) Because the reality is if it were not for the food banks and faith groups plugging the gaps left by the state, we would have had people starving.” In its formal response, the government studiously avoided any references to benefit delays and low pay.
(6) Fifty Shades Of Grey is about a shy, studious, 21-year-old virgin who, in exchange for being repeatedly beaten on the clitoris with a hairbrush, gets an iPad and a go on Christian Grey 's helicopter.
(7) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(8) "The point here, which the government is studiously missing is that the best defence for Britain lies, not in action on the domestic front, but on the international one.
(9) Linehan wrote the script with the memory of the film ringing in his head rather than studiously watching it again and again.
(10) First, the TV White House has studiously avoided taking sides in the clash.
(11) We had been studiously avoiding coverage of Madonna's latest trip to Malawi, but such is the deliciousness of the excoriating 11-point press release put out yesterday by Joyce Banda that we couldn't resist wading in.
(12) Felipe has spent most of his last days as prince studiously working on his first speech to the nation as king, according to reports.
(13) A studious man in his 60s, Ramsey has spent decades collecting more than 27,000 samples of narcotics, which he has meticulously catalogued, labelled and hidden away in huge sliding drawers.
(14) Vieira is a more studious figure than Gullit of course, and comes steeped in the ways of the CFG project.
(15) A studious, intellectually inclined teenager, he was a devoted fan of the recently inaugurated Third Programme.
(16) They met as undergraduates in the humanities department at Columbia University and the studiousness remains.
(17) The issue of sanctions was just one where Trump – who made reference to his Scottish mother – and May studiously avoided overt disagreement.
(18) Fears and hopes of how a Corbyn victory will change British politics Read more To the relief of the southern middle classes, the chancellor announces, with a sideways glance at Corbyn, whose expression is studiously neutral, that there is to be no increase in the top rate of taxation.
(19) National anthems to be sung, crowd posturing to be done, huddles to be had, NFL field markings to be studiously ignored (I mean, really?
(20) He studiously ignored reporters as his hands became smeared with blue ink from the pictures and stickers thrust his way to sign.