Antonyms for industrious
ɪnˈdʌs tri əsin·dus·tri·ous

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1. industrious

   Industrious signifies zealously or habitually applying oneself to any work or business. Busy applies to an activity which may be temporary, industrious to a habit of life. We say a man is busy just now; that is, occupied at the moment with something that takes his full attention. It would be ridiculous or satirical to say, he is industrious just now. But busy can be used in the sense of industrious, as when we say he is a busy man. Diligent indicates also a disposition, which is ordinarily habitual, and suggests more of heartiness and volition than industrious. We say one is a diligent, rather than an industrious, reader of the Bible. In the use of the nouns, we speak of plodding industry, but not of plodding diligence. Compare ACTIVE; INDUSTRY.

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   Synonyms:
   active, assiduous, busy, diligent, employed, engaged, occupied, sedulous

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1. industrious

   Antonyms:
   lazy, shiftless, idle

   Synonyms:
   diligent, laborious, busy, assiduous, active, hardworking

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1. hardworking, industrious, tireless, untiringadjective

   characterized by hard work and perseverance

   Antonyms:
   unenterprising, nonenterprising, negligent

   Synonyms:
   tireless, gumptious, unflagging, energetic, unwearying, up-and-coming, indefatigable, hardworking, untiring

2. energetic, gumptious, industrious, up-and-comingadjective

   working hard to promote an enterprise

   Antonyms:
   nonenterprising, unenterprising, negligent

   Synonyms:
   up-and-coming, hardworking, gumptious, energetic, tireless, untiring

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1. industriousadjective

   Antonyms:
   idle, indolent, inactive, lazy

   Synonyms:
   assiduous, diligent, sedulous, persistent, hard-working

How to use industrious in a sentence?

1. Guy Finley:

   Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

2. Francis Bacon:

   I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

3. Lito Atienza:

   He is industrious, always ready to serve. That is his character.

4. Samuel Butler:

   To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

5. Connor Campbell:

   Silver has knock-on effects compared to GameStop because it has links to miners, and then the miners themselves have an impact on how the FTSE 100 performs, if you start pushing silver higher, that is going to have effects on other industrious and other markets and that is clearly what happened.

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