studied
/ˈstʌdɪd
/adjective
(Of a quality or result) achieved or maintained by careful and deliberate effort: he treated them with studied politeness...
- This book's similar mixture of the raw and the studied gives it a surprising force.
- The outcome of fluorosis was the most studied of all the adverse effects considered.
- They bear the traces of the studio sitting in their fixed stance and studied expressions.
Synonyms
deliberate, careful, thoughtful, considered, conscious, calculated, intentional, volitional, designed, mannered, measured, studious, knowing, purposeful;
guarded, contrived, affected, forced, strained, laboured, feigned, artificial, overworked, overdone, self-conscious
Derivatives
studiedly
- A book or a studiedly blank expression will help.
- And as the president, his rhetoric has been studiedly non-inflammatory.
- The book is enriched by a deeply informative, yet studiedly non-polemical, introduction by the editor.
studiedness
- The splendid portrait photographs have the chiaroscuro clarity as well as the mannered studiedness of Beaton works.
- His art is amazing on a lot of levels, but there's a dry studiedness about it that keeps me from totally embracing it.
- As always in Visconti, a certain studiedness in the artistic effects causes us to keep the film at a distance, to distrust it.