Antonyms for DILIGENCE
ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns; Fr. di liˈʒɑ̃s; -dʒən sɪz; Fr. -ˈʒɑ̃sdili·gence

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1. diligence

   Industry is the quality, action, or habit of earnest, steady, and continued attention or devotion to any useful or productive work or task, manual or mental. Assiduity (Latin ad, to, and sedeo, sit), as the etymology suggests, sits down to a task until it is done. Diligence (Latin diligo, love, choose) invests more effort and exertion, with love of the work or deep interest in its accomplishment; application (Latin ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity. Constancy is a steady devotion of heart and principle. Patience works on in spite of annoyances; perseverance overcomes hindrances and difficulties; persistence strives relentlessly against opposition; persistence has very frequently an unfavorable meaning, implying that one persists in spite of considerations that should induce him to desist. Industry is diligence applied to some avocation, business, or profession. Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.

   Antonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

   Synonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

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1. diligence

   Antonyms:
   indifference, carelessness, neglect, inattention, heedlessness, desultoriness, inertness, idleness

   Synonyms:
   care, assiduity, attention, application, heed, industry

Matched Categories

1. • Conscientiousness
   • Determination
   • Effort

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. diligencenoun

   conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation

   Synonyms:
   industriousness, industry, application

2. diligence, industriousness, industrynoun

   persevering determination to perform a task

   "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"

   Synonyms:
   industriousness, diligence, manufacture, industry, application

3. application, diligencenoun

   a diligent effort

   "it is a job requiring serious application"

   Synonyms:
   application, applications programme, practical application, diligence, industriousness, application program, covering, industry, coating, lotion

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1. diligencenoun

   Synonyms:
   assiduity, sedulousness, sedulity, perseverance, stagecoach (France)

How to use DILIGENCE in a sentence?

1. Roger Robinson:

   There has been a dearth of adequate due diligence performed on these companies from both a national security and a human rights perspective.

2. Mike Bates:

   It's important fans understand that security this year has really been ramped up, security has always been good out here but with the increase in people we thought it was our due diligence to bump those up.

3. Mossack Fonseca:

   Fifteen years ago, due diligence didn't exist and they are judging us by other standards.

4. Samuel Johnson:

   Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

5. Kelly Rizzo:

   He saw my Instagram, and he's like,' Oh, it's not all selfies and bikinis. Like, she actually does stuff. She has this food show and travel show. She seems interesting,' so he did some due diligence. He called a friend of his who's also in media in Chicago, a radio host, and was like,' Hey, do you know this Kelly Rizzo girl ? Is she a b ---- ?' And he's like,' No, she's really nice actually. Yeah, I know her.'.

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