studiously
/stˈudiəsli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.35 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections."
- "Forthwith I mingled with my fellow-men, / And studiously from records of the past, / And from the flowing tide of human being, / Cull’d deepest knowledge of their history"
- "Thus was I then to lose my faithfull preceptress, as did the philosophers of the town the white crow of her profession: for besides that she never ransacked her customers, whose taste too she ever studiously consulted,[…]"
- "His three years there were spent chiefly in the study of music, in the Vaulting-school, in dancing; and in quarrelling, studiously, with the authorities, upon all sorts of subjects."
- "The divers tongues are not intended to be studiously learnt or dramatically parrotised as some church leaders would want to drag adherents into."
- "[…] these tributes studiously ignore another aspect of his life: how, throughout his later career, Mr. Rustin repeatedly challenged progressive orthodoxies."
Etymology
Etymology tree English studious Middle English -ly English -ly English studiously From studious + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more studiously (comparative)
most studiously (superlative)