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industrious
[ in-duhs-tree-uhs ]
adjective
- working energetically and devotedly; hardworking; diligent:
an industrious person.
Synonyms: energetic, tireless, sedulous, persevering, assiduous
- Obsolete. skillful.
industrious
/ ɪnˈdʌstrɪəs /
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Derived Forms
- inˈdustriousness, noun
- inˈdustriously, adverb
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Other Words From
- in·dus·tri·ous·ly adverb
- in·dus·tri·ous·ness noun
- non·in·dus·tri·ous adjective
- non·in·dus·tri·ous·ly adverb
- su·per·in·dus·tri·ous adjective
- su·per·in·dus·tri·ous·ly adverb
- un·in·dus·tri·ous adjective
- un·in·dus·tri·ous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of industrious1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
The Moravians were an industrious, inventive, highly organized, devout people who valued education for all.
There were plenty of lovable, responsible, industrious “good role models” for my parents to try to push on me.
Empire, Rhodes seemed to think, was just the honest result of industrious work.
Because it lacks the stylish voice of a hard-boiled detective noir, it sometimes feels coldly industrious.
Corruption is so endemic that one industrious Czech started a corruption safari bus tour.
A good neighbour and a regular church-goer, honest and industrious—let us hope that these qualities will be taken into account.
An industrious housewife, she hummed the hymns of contentment and peace from morning till evening.
There must be something wrong with a social system which permits one idle peer to ruin hundreds of industrious producers.
An offer which Jane received from a very honest, industrious, and thrifty jeweler, aroused anew a mother's maternal solicitude.
He complained that he had gone to see a great prince, and had found only an industrious shipwright.
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