Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb study
6 senses of study
Sense 1
analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas -- (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives")
Sense 2
study -- (be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning)
Sense 3
study, consider -- (give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving")
=> chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate -- (reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate")
Sense 4
learn, study, read, take -- (be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam")
Sense 5
study, hit the books -- (learn by reading books; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now")
=> learn, larn, acquire -- (gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate")
Sense 6
study, meditate, contemplate -- (think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study")
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate -- (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere")
Antonyms of adj studied
1 sense of studied
Sense 1
studied (vs. unstudied) -- (produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; "a studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied insult"- V.L.Parrington)
unstudied (vs. studied), uncontrived -- (not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm")
=> candid -- (informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared; "a candid photograph"; "a candid interview")
Similarity of adj studied
1 sense of studied
Sense 1
studied (vs. unstudied) -- (produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; "a studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied insult"- V.L.Parrington)
Also See-> affected#2, unnatural#3