industrious

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌstɹi.əs/

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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?

• See also Thesaurus:industrious

• lazy

• industrial
• industry

• “industrious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “industrious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “industrious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.