hardworking
- adjective
- /ˈhɑrdˌwɜrkɪŋ/
- She is known as a hardworking student who always submits her assignments on time and strives for high grades.
- honest and hardworking
- hardworking people
- very hardworking
She was extremely, extremely hardworking at the time.
- She was extremely, extremely hardworking at the time.
- So in some ways, the biggest surprise was going out there and meeting girls who were energetic and hardworking and enthusiastic and truly optimistic.
- And then you demean these hardworking Americans and say there is some some deep state conspiracy against you.
- I think that the challenge that CIA has is that it has a lot of very smart, very hardworking, very dedicated heroes who work as worker bees.
- You may want a super aggressive agent, or that may not be your style and you want somebody who's super hardworking and ambitious but not super aggressive.
- And it was just like, they were hardworking because I'm the neighbor.
- because you are hardworking. Yes, we would have. We we we found more people hardworking than us, but they did not succeed. One of why they're not smart,
Examples
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And I do take Charles's point, but I do think that for most hardworking Americans, these things really do matter.
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I'm just an honest, hardworking club owner.
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One student noted, "The whole team is really hardworking when it comes to school."
Academic text (2002) -
These are hardworking men who are just trying to earn an honest living.
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I never would have made a fool of myself and I never would have met the most incredible, hardworking woman in the world.
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Though Joshua was bright and hardworking, there were few opportunities for him.
Fiction book (1999) -
The teacher went on to describe Paul as a "very happy, pleasant, and hardworking young man."
Academic text (2006) -
Somebody is trying to take money from honest, God-fearing, hardworking people.
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She was a hardworking woman, and it is not fair, not fair what you say.
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Friends described him as gracious, resolute, patient, hardworking, and modest in demeanor.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
Careful and serious about doing work the right way
To work carefully and try hard to finish tasks
Has a lot of energy and keeps working without stopping
Working hard and carefully to complete tasks
Being careful and hardworking, showing steady effort over time
Working very hard all the time
Able to keep working with steady energy for a long time
Antonyms
How Hardworking
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hardworking is a simple mix of hard (meaning 'with great effort' or 'difficult') and work (meaning 'to do a job'), so it paints the picture of someone who keeps going and puts a lot of effort into tasks.