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INDUSTRIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by hard work and perseverance
Synonyms:
hardworking; industrious; tireless; untiring
Classified under:
Similar:
diligent (characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks)
Derivation:
industriousness; industry (persevering determination to perform a task)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Working hard to promote an enterprise
Synonyms:
energetic; gumptious; industrious; up-and-coming
Classified under:
Similar:
enterprising (marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects)
Derivation:
industriousness; industry (persevering determination to perform a task)
Context examples:
Catherine's disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious; but whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort, her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“No better opening anywhere,” said my aunt, “for a man who conducts himself well, and is industrious.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The first day she was very obedient and industrious, and exerted herself to please Mother Holle, for she thought of the gold she should get in return.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You are an industrious soul, and you like to work hard, but to make the most of these aspects, you must leave the house in order for anything to happen.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
His sister Marian had been keeping company with an industrious young mechanic, of German extraction, who, after thoroughly learning the trade, had set up for himself in a bicycle-repair shop.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They naturally took comfort in each other's society and were much together, riding, walking, dancing, or dawdling, for at Nice no one can be very industrious during the gay season.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“I want to have something to do with all those many hours when you are so industrious. May I hold the pens?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Hans had been at home for a long time, but Elsie did not come; then said he: “What a clever Elsie I have; she is so industrious that she does not even come home to eat.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He was honest, and faithful, and industrious, and economical.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
