industrious
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3.3
- adjective
- /ɪnˈdʌstriəs/
:
trabajador
- All I'm hearing these days from both Mama and Daddy is how industrious and efficient you are.
- industrious and sober
- honest and industrious
- industrious and thrifty
The word that he used was industrious, he said, some people more industrious than others.
- The word that he used was industrious, he said, some people more industrious than others.
- And so many of these young men are smart and industrious.
- We've all become industrious, hard working, honest people all our lives.
- And that's a field that lies waiting for industrious and industrious graduate students.
- The bourgeois values of prudence and self restraint, the industrious revolution.
Examples
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I think she's very industrious, you know, she never stops doing that.
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But I, I, I actually believe that, you know, these are, these are people that are industrious, they are capable.
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Do you have an Israeli working for you who is industrious and able?
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God gave the world for our improvement of it, and therefore He gave it to the industrious and the rational.
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We've all become industrious, hard working, honest people all our lives.
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Fame meant nothing; it was important only to live a modest, sober, industrious life.
Fiction book (1993) -
Required courses were rare, and an industrious student, with minimal interference, acquired a broad education.
Academic text (1995) -
The Indians, as a rule, are fairly industrious and law-abiding.
Academic text (2010) -
The most commonly held impression of the citizenry was that they were industrious and orderly.
Academic text (1997) -
The industrious student spent countless hours studying to ensure he passed his exams.
Synonyms
78
1.1
Putting a lot of effort into work or study
37
3.6
To work carefully and try hard to finish tasks
29
3.8
Has a lot of energy and keeps working without stopping
5
9.3
Always continuing to work without becoming tired
3
8.2
Being careful and hardworking, showing steady effort over time
Able to keep working with steady energy for a long time
Antonyms
How Industrious
Surface Forms
Morphology
industrious = industry (semi-transparent) = industry + ous
Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-ous' to 'industry', but the adjective reflects the sense 'diligence/hard work' rather than the more common modern sense 'manufacturing', so learners who know only the economic sense may not infer the meaning.
Etymology
Industrious comes from the same root as industry, a word for 'work' and factories, so imagine busy workers or bees doing steady tasks. So, to be industrious is to be hardworking and always busy doing useful work.