sedulously

Examples

• All

• A highly prescriptive and sedulously organized place, the boarding school profoundly adopted the Christian faith as its organizing principle.

  Academic text (1996)

• Programs we might watch on Nova were sedulously avoided.

  Academic text (1992)

• The fossil-rich caves of southern China have been, and still are, sedulously mined by farmers who sell these medicinal treasures to apothecaries in the cities.

  Academic text (1991)

• But there can be little doubt that, contrary to the mythology he himself sedulously cultivated, Churchill succumbed at times to the doubts that plagued British leaders in the summer of 1940.

  Academic text (1993)

• He is the most left-wing president in our history, and he is sedulously engaged in proving that left-wing politics are ill-suited for America or for any country that wants to prosper.

  Blog text (19)

• The gardener tended to the plants sedulously, making sure they received enough water and sunlight.

• The student prepared for the exam sedulously, studying every night for weeks in order to achieve good grades.

Synonyms

D

diligently

vssedulously

38 4.1

In a careful and steady way that shows hard work

is more thorough and implies persistent complete attention

S

studiously

vssedulously

6 5.0

To do something carefully and with full attention while learning

is broader and used for careful persistent effort in many tasks beyond study

Antonyms

C

carelessly

20 1.0

In a way that you do something without thinking or paying attention

N

negligently

4 6.6

In a careless way without proper care or attention

How Diligent

assiduously

5 7.7

sedulously

• Formal

8.7

diligently

38 4.1

carefully

978 1.0

inattentively

6.5

Surface Forms

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Etymology