industrious

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʌstɹi.əs/
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Adjective

industrious (comparative more industrious, superlative most industrious)

  1. Hard-working and persistent.
    She was a very industrious student at school.
    • 1941, Ogden Nash, The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, The ant, 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?

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