Antonyms for diligent
ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəntdili·gent

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1. diligent

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awake

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

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1. diligent, perseveringadjective

   quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness

   "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business"

   Antonyms:
   slack, derelict, impatient, delinquent, negligent, neglectful, lax, inattentive, hit-and-run(a), remiss

   Synonyms:
   persevering

2. diligentadjective

   characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks

   "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a diligent search of the files"

   Antonyms:
   lax, derelict, impatient, neglectful, inattentive, slack, delinquent, remiss, negligent, hit-and-run(a)

   Synonyms:
   persevering

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1. diligentadjective

   Antonyms:
   lazy

   Synonyms:
   sedulous, industrious, assiduous, persevering

How to use diligent in a sentence?

1. Jessica Steffens:

   Maggie is someone who really does a lot of the diligent work of what it means to be an elite anything, she reads books. She reads quotes. ... She writes pump-up notes to herself. She tracks her goals for herself.

2. Dion Kohler:

   ( Atlas) made diligent efforts to act reasonably in the face of a crisis facing its business and to comply with this relatively new and unique law.

3. Erik Cabetas:

   These guys are very diligent about not being caught.

4. Nathaniel Gleicher:

   If you are very, very loud, if you go viral very, very fast that's exactly the sort of thing that our automated systems will detect and flag, so when actors have really diligent, deliberate and effective operational security it weakens their ability to build an audience.

5. The AirPods:

   I’m a diligent person, and I tracked the whole way from San Francisco to Seattle, taking screenshots the entire time. I live an hour from Seattle, and once I got home, I was still taking screenshots.

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