diligent
adjectiveGraduateELO 1,400GRECAT
DEFINITION
quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
WEBSTER'S 1913
Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
ETYMOLOGY
Latin 'diligens' meaning loving carefully
SYNONYMS
ANTONYMS
IN LITERATURE
“The footman was diligent; the champagne corks feebly recalled the file-firing at Richmond. "We'll drink to what we might have been, Dick," said the enchantress.”
— George Meredith, Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
IN USE
“Boxer has been compared to Alexey Stakhanov, a diligent and enthusiastic role model of the Stakhanovite movement.”
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