- active
- assiduous
- attentive
- careful
- conscientious
- eager
- earnest
- indefatigable
- industrious
- painstaking
- persistent
- studious
- tireless
- busy
- constant
- eager beaver
- grind
- laborious
- occupied
- operose
- persisting
- pertinacious
- plugging
- sedulous
- steadfast
- unflagging
- unrelenting
- untiring
On this page you’ll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to diligent, such as: active, assiduous, attentive, careful, conscientious, and eager.
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How to use diligent in a sentence
But he was studious, diligent, and anxious to avoid repremands and to fulfil the expectations of his parents.
BASTIEN LEPAGEFR. CRASTRE
He was sent from one place to another, in quest of his friend, and made diligent use of his long legs, but without success.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNE
The three plodded on, taking a diligent constitutional walk, exchanging very few words, and those chiefly between the girls.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO DILIGENT
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- fireball
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- jumping
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- scrupulous
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- employed
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- having a full plate
- having enough on one’s plate
- having fish to fry
- having many irons in the fire
- hustling
- in a meeting
- in conference
- in someone else’s possession
- in the field
- in the laboratory
- industrious
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- on assignment
- on duty
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- overloaded
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- slaving
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- unavailable
- up to one’s ears
- with a customer
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- active
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- assiduous
- at it
- buried
- diligent
- employed
- engaged
- engrossed
- having a full plate
- having enough on one’s plate
- having fish to fry
- having many irons in the fire
- hustling
- in a meeting
- in conference
- in someone else’s possession
- in the field
- in the laboratory
- industrious
- occupied
- on assignment
- on duty
- on the go
- overloaded
- persevering
- slaving
- snowed
- swamped
- tied up
- unavailable
- up to one’s ears
- with a customer
- working
- accomplished
- careful
- concentrated
- correct
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- direct
- disciplined
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- assiduous
- at it
- buried
- diligent
- employed
- engaged
- engrossed
- having a full plate
- having enough on one’s plate
- having fish to fry
- having many irons in the fire
- hustling
- in a meeting
- in conference
- in someone else’s possession
- in the field
- in the laboratory
- industrious
- occupied
- on assignment
- on duty
- on the go
- overloaded
- persevering
- slaving
- snowed
- swamped
- tied-up
- unavailable
- up to one’s ears
- with a customer
- working
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes
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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.
Synonyms:
active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awakeAntonyms:
dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupidPreposition:
Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people’s business.
Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote
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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»
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perseveringAntonyms:
slack, derelict, impatient, delinquent, negligent, neglectful, lax, inattentive, hit-and-run(a), remiss -
diligentadjective
characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks
«a diligent detective investigates all clues»; «a diligent search of the files»
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perseveringAntonyms:
lax, derelict, impatient, neglectful, inattentive, slack, delinquent, remiss, negligent, hit-and-run(a)
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diligentadjective
Synonyms:
assiduous, sedulous, industrious, active, busy, persevering, notable, hard-working, at work, diligently employed, busily engaged, up and stirring, busy as a bee, brisk as a bee
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Andrew Ceresney:
The SEC relies on the accuracy of the books and records of financial institutions and blue sheet data, oZ Management’s inaccurate data had a substantial ripple effect that the SEC staff discovered through diligent investigative work.
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Mary Kay:
In the Coastal Bend, around one third of the stranded loggerheads have been found alive and are receiving care at permitted rehabilitation facilities, including Amos Rehabilitation Keep Keep, Texas State Aquarium, and Texas Sealife Center, the affected loggerheads have been found underweight and emaciated. They are receiving diligent care in rehabilitation, and we hope that most will recover and ultimately be released back into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Frank Cownie:
To me, the science has been very clear. When you see a spread like we’re seeing in the state of Iowa and in Polk County, we need to be more diligent.
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Denis Diderot:
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Mike Rogers:
I am thrilled that the Space Corps idea is gaining traction at the White House. Congressman Jim Cooper( D-TN) and I have worked tirelessly on the House Armed Services Committee( House Armed Services Committee) Strategic Forces subcommittee level on the need for Marine Corps outside of Air Force for over two years now, russia and China are surpassing House Armed Services Committee in Space capabilities and House Armed Services Committee need to dedicate a separate force solely with a Space mission. The future of war will be fought in Space, and House Armed Services Committee must stay diligent and ahead of other countries for House Armed Services Committee own national security.
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- مجتهدArabic
- прилежен, усърден, старателенBulgarian
- pilnýCzech
- diwydWelsh
- flittigDanish
- fleißig, arbeitsam, eifrigGerman
- επιμελήςGreek
- diligentaEsperanto
- diligenteSpanish
- huolellinen, tunnollinenFinnish
- industrieux, diligentFrench
- dèanadachScottish Gaelic
- חָרוּץHebrew
- मेहनतीHindi
- szorgalmasHungarian
- աշխատասերArmenian
- diligenteInterlingua
- rajinIndonesian
- diligentaIdo
- diligenteItalian
- חָרוּץHebrew
- 勤勉Japanese
- uzcītīgs, cītīgs, centīgsLatvian
- urupūMāori
- arbeidsomNorwegian
- vlijtig, toegewijd, ijverigDutch
- arbeidsamNorwegian Nynorsk
- flittig, iherdigNorwegian
- pilnyPolish
- diligentePortuguese
- harnicRomanian
- работящий, усердный, трудолюбивый, прилежныйRussian
- arbetsam, flitig, ihärdigSwedish
- விடாமுயற்சிTamil
- ขยันThai
- çalışkanTurkish
- میہنتیUrdu
- siêng năngVietnamese
- 勤奋Chinese
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active, animated, assiduous, attentive, brisk, en.synonym.one, businesslike, busy, constant, contemplative, designing, detailed, determined, eager, earnest, efficient, entire, exclusive, fraught, hard-working, hardworking, impersonal, indefatigable, industrious, intact, intense, en.synonym.one, intent, laborious, methodical, notable, observant, occupied, orderly, organized, overworked, patient, persevering, persistent, purposeful, resolute, scrupulous, sedulous, serious, skillful, steadfast, steady, studied, studious, systematic, tireless, total, en.synonym.one, undivided, unfailing, unflagging, unrelenting, wide awake, wide-awake.
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