Diligent
['dɪlɪdʒ(ə)nt] or ['dɪlɪdʒənt]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks; 'a diligent detective investigates all clues'; 'a diligent search of the files' .
(adj.) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; 'a diligent (or patient) worker'; 'with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business' .
Editor: Milton--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
(a.) Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.
Editor: Rosanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Assiduous, sedulous, industrious, active, busy, persevering, notable, hard-working, at work, diligently employed, busily engaged, up and stirring, busy as a bee, brisk as a bee.
Editor: Ramon
Definition
adj. steady and earnest in application: industrious.—n. Dil′igence steady application: industry: (Scots law) a warrant to produce witnesses books &c. or a process by which persons or goods are attached: a French or continental stage-coach (also pronounced dē-lē-zhongs)—also Dill′y.—adv. Dil′igently.
Editor: Roxanne
Examples
- You are very diligent at that sewing, Miss Caroline, continued the girl, approaching her little table. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Being left alone, Paulina and I kept silence for some time: we both took out some work, and plied a mute and diligent task. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In his work on architecture, Vitruvius shows himself a diligent a nd devoted student of the sciences in order that he may turn them to account in his own department of technology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Diligent inquirer after virtue, and banisher of vice! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He was a diligent but, as was natural, considering the character of his early education, by no means a passive student. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Diligent, persevering, steady, acute in business. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A diligent judge gains a comfortable, though moderate revenue, by his office; an idle one gets little more than his salary. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The diligent spinner has a large shift; and now I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good-morrow. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I was very retired and quiet, and tried to be very diligent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Otherwise he was sane and rational, diligent and charitable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He knew the arts and the sciences, held lofty ideals of profess ional conduct and dignity, and was a diligent student of Greek philosophy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Roxanne