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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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