Synonyms of studying

studying

verb

present participle of study

1

as in researching

to use the mind to acquire knowledge

you'll have to study hard and learn all about the Revolutionary War in order to pass the history test

Synonyms & Similar Words

• researching
• learning
• reading
• analyzing
• memorizing
• going over
• going through
• understanding
• deducing
• boning (up)
• grinding
• knowing
• swotting
• cramming
• finding out
• digesting
• restudying
• comprehending
• conning
• apprehending
• grasping
• absorbing

2

as in learning

to commit to memory

having carefully studied the document, he could repeat what it said exactly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• learning
• memorizing
• knowing
• remembering
• understanding
• retaining
• recalling
• grasping
• conning
• getting
• thinking (of)
• accepting
• comprehending
• recollecting
• absorbing
• reliving
• digesting
• apprehending
• reminiscing (about)
• minding
• harking back (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unlearning
• forgetting
• ignoring
• neglecting
• disregarding
• overlooking
• passing over
• slighting
• disremembering
• misremembering
• slurring (over)
• overpassing

3

as in contemplating

to give serious and careful thought to

scientists who study the origin of the universe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• contemplating
• pondering
• debating
• considering
• entertaining
• questioning
• exploring
• analyzing
• reviewing
• eyeing
• weighing
• meditating
• deliberating
• ruminating
• cogitating
• looking at
• thinking (about or over)
• wrestling (with)
• mulling (over)
• chewing on
• revolving
• turning
• poring (over)
• digesting
• perpending
• chewing over
• kicking around
• reflecting (on or upon)
• reminiscing
• beating one's brains out (about)
• reasoning
• cudgeling one's brains (about)
• believing
• musing (upon)
• concluding
• absorbing
• speculating (about)
• opining
• assimilating
• dwelling (on or upon)
• conceiving
• fixating (on or upon)
• brooding (about or over)
• obsessing (about or over)
• fretting (about or over)
• drinking (in)
• second-guessing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignoring
• disregarding
• overlooking
• rejecting
• dismissing
• slighting
• pooh-poohing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of studying

Tan-Gillespie eventually became the first in her family to attend college, studying business at the University of Plymouth and graduating in 1996. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

Researchers like us have spent years studying treatment and harm reduction, a field with a wealth of data, including insurance claims. — J. Travis Donahoe, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026

He was born and raised in the UK, studying at the University of Nottingham before beginning his media career at Twentieth Century Fox in 1989. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026

The students said understanding the measures can be difficult even for people who have spent months studying them. — James Taylor, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

But Eisner-Grynberg said her client was herself on the witness stand, someone who was in Girl Scouts studying sewing and craft making before her world was turned upside down by her father, who died after he was injured in a bombing in Syria in 2018. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Moderna and Merck are studying the intismeran-Keytruda pairing in other cancer types in nine other studies, such as pancreatic and gastric cancer, as well as in three late-stage trials of non-small cell lung cancer. — Alice Park, Time, 22 Oct. 2026

What changed her was realizing that natural ability wasn’t enough, leaving Hollywood for New York and studying with Lee Strasberg. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026

Researchers are studying whether blocking it can clear away damaged, aging cells while helping healthier cells survive. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026