diligent
Someone who is diligent works hard and carefully. If you want to write the epic history of your family, you’ll have to be very diligent in tracking down and interviewing all of your relatives.
Diligent comes from the Latin diligere, which means “to value highly, take delight in,” but in English it has always meant careful and hard-working. If you’re a diligent worker, you don’t just bang away at your job; you earnestly try to do everything right. Although being lucky and talented doesn’t hurt, it’s the diligent person who eventually succeeds.
Definitions of diligent
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quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
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diligent (or patient) worker”-
synonyms:
persevering-
patient
enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance
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patient
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characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks
“a
diligent detective investigates all clues”“a
diligent search of the files”-
Synonyms:
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busy
actively or fully engaged or occupied
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careful
exercising caution or showing care or attention
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assiduous, sedulous
marked by care and persistent effort
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hardworking, industrious, tireless, untiring
characterized by hard work and perseverance
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Antonyms:
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negligent
characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern
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inattentive
showing a lack of attention or care
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careless
marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
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delinquent, derelict, neglectful, remiss
failing in what duty requires
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lax, slack
lacking in rigor or strictness
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hit-and-run
involving a driver of a motor vehicle who leaves the scene of an accident
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inattentive, neglectful
not showing due care or attention
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busy
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