Synonyms 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.

   See synonyms for IDLE.

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

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1. industrious

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

   Antonyms:
   lazy, shiftless, idle

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1. hardworking, industrious, tireless, untiringadjective

   characterized by hard work and perseverance

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

   Antonyms:
   unenterprising, nonenterprising, negligent

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

   working hard to promote an enterprise

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

   Antonyms:
   nonenterprising, unenterprising, negligent

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1. industriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   DILIGENT, assiduous, sedulous, busy, laborious, notable, at work, active, persevering, hard-working, diligently employed, busily engaged, up and stirring, busy as a bee, brisk as a bee

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1. industriousadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   idle, indolent, inactive, lazy

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1. List of paraphrases for "industrious":

   hard-working, hardworking, diligent, laborious

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How to use industrious in a sentence?

1. Guy Finley:

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

2. Henry David Thoreau:

   If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

3. Samuel Butler:

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

4. Naad-Dre Amos:

   A poet is what I want to be one day, and there will be no good ideas for me on what to write down, but I will do my best to do a lot of thinking like an industrious person.” ~ Naad-Dre Amos

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.