Industrious

English

Adjective

Industrious

1. Hard-working and persistent; worksome.

   I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:industrious

Derived terms

• industriousness

Related terms

• industrial
• industry

Adverbs for Industrious

painfully; perseveringly; dependably; unremittingly; energetically; actively; carefully; constantly; temperamentally; characteristically; busily; reliably; amazingly; unusually; uncomplainingly; happily; cheerfully; unwaveringly; invariably; uniformly; persistently ; insistently.

Thesaurus

active, aggressive, ardent, assiduous, busy, conscientious, constant, continuing, diligent, dogged, dynamic, elaborate, enduring, energetic, faithful, fervent, hard, hard-working, hardworking, hustling, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, insistent, intense, invincible, laborious, lasting, live, loyal, never idle, never-tiring, obstinate, operose, painstaking, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, resolute, sedulous, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady, strenuous, stubborn, tenacious, thorough, thoroughgoing, tireless, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vehement, vigorous, weariless, zealous

Etymology

From Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”) < industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.

Translations

hard-working and persistent

Arabic: مجتهد (ar) (mujtáhid) Armenian: աշխատասեր  (hy) (ašxataser) Chinese: Mandarin: 勤勉 (zh) (qínmiǎn), 勤 (zh) (qín), 勤奮 (zh), 勤奋 (zh) (qínfèn), 耐勞 (zh), 耐劳 (zh) (nàiláo) Czech: pilný (cs) m. Dutch: ijverig, vlijtig Finnish: ahkera (fi) French: industrieux (fr) m., diligent (fr) m. German: fleißig (de), arbeitsam (de), eifrig (de) Hindi: मेहनती (hi) (mehnatī)

Italian: industrioso (it), laborioso (it) Japanese: 勤勉 (ja) (きんべん, kinben) Latvian: centīgs (lv) m. Polish: pilny (pl) m. Russian: прилежный (ru) (priléžnyj) m., усердный (ru) (usérdnyj) m., трудолюбивый (ru) (trudoljubívyj) m., работящий (ru) (rabotjáščij) m. Scottish Gaelic: dèanadach (gd) Serbian: trudoljubiv m., trudoljubiva f., marljiv m., marljiva f. Swedish: flitig (sv), ihärdig (sv) Urdu: میہنتی (ur) (mehnatī)

External links

• Industrious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Industrious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Industrious at OneLook Dictionary Search