industrious

From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌstɹi.əs/

industrious (comparative more industrious, superlative most industrious)

1. Hard-working and persistent.
   • 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.

     The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?

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

• See also Thesaurus:industrious

• industriousness

• industrial
• industry
• industriousness

• industrious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• industrious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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