industriously

Examples

• All

• The students worked industriously on their projects to meet the upcoming deadline.

• She attached the rubber connection to the valve and pump and manipulated the pump-piston industriously for a few strokes.

  Academic text (2007)

• But she seemed happy as she sat industriously amid the debris in her office.

  Fiction book (1991)

• To this end, she deliberately and industriously made the way of any biographer difficult.

  Academic text (1994)

• A man? An Anglo armed with a shovel was digging industriously in the dirt.

  Fiction book (2000)

• A toddler industriously picks up paper cups and drops them in a cooler, takes out the cups, and drops them in again.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Then he walked over to a desk where a clerk was industriously jotting in a ledger or notebook.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Joze and Kicva bent industriously over their work of skinning Kicva's catch of two rabbits and a squirrel.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The feel of the plain gray notebook and the sight of its pages conjured up for Roger an immediate vision of the Reverend, bald head gleaming in the glow of his desk lamp as he industriously inscribed the day's happenings.

  Fiction book (1992)

• She gardened industriously, ensuring that every flower was well cared for.

Synonyms

D

diligently

vsindustriously

38 4.1

In a careful and steady way that shows hard work

is more general, showing steady hard work without stressing careful focus

A

assiduously

vsindustriously

5 7.7

To do something carefully and with steady effort

is about steady hard work rather than exceptional care and attention

L

laboriously

vsindustriously

5 6.6

With a lot of effort in a slow, tiring way

expresses hard steady work without the slow tedious quality

A

arduously

vsindustriously

1 7.8

In a way that needs great effort and long hard work

emphasizes steady hard work but not extreme difficulty

E

effortfully

vsindustriously

5.4

In a way that uses a lot of physical or mental energy

involves continuous careful work rather than single effortful acts

Antonyms

I

idly

37 3.7

To act in a lazy way without a clear purpose

L

lazily

12 1.2

In a slow relaxed way that uses little energy

How Industrious

assiduously

5 7.7

industriously

1 3.7

diligently

38 4.1

lazily

12 1.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology