Diligent \Dil"i*gent\, a. [F. diligent, L. diligens, -entis, p.
pr. of diligere, dilectum, to esteem highly, prefer; di- =
dis- + legere to choose. See Legend.]
1. Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful;
painstaking; not careless or negligent.
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The judges shall make diligent inquisition. --Deut.
xix. 18.
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2. Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and
earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous;
industrious.
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Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall
stand before kings. --Prov. xxii.
29.
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Diligent cultivation of elegant literature.
--Prescott.
Syn: Active; assiduous; sedulous; laborious; persevering;
attentive; industrious.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
diligent
adj 1: quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or
exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with
persevering (or patient) industry she revived the
failing business" [syn: persevering]
2: characterized by care and perseverence in carrying out
tasks; "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a
diligent search of the files" [ant: negligent]
WordNet (r) 2.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "diligent":
academic, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, ardent,
assiduous, attentive, aware, bookish, careful, concentrated,
conscientious, conscious, constant, continuing, devoted to studies,
dogged, donnish, dryasdust, earnest, elaborate, enduring,
energetic, faithful, fervent, finical, finicking, finicky, hard,
hard-working, hardworking, heedful, immutable, inalterable,
indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, intense,
intent, intentive, invincible, laborious, lasting, loyal, mandarin,
meticulous, mindful, never idle, never-tiring, nice, niggling,
observant, observing, obstinate, on the ball, on the job,
open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, operose, owlish, painstaking,
patient, patient as Job, pedantic, permanent, perseverant,
persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding,
plugging, preoccupied, professorial, punctilious, rabbinic, rapt,
regardful, relentless, resolute, scholarly, scholastic, scrupulous,
sedulous, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast,
steady, strenuous, stubborn, studious, tenacious, thorough,
thoroughgoing, tireless, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted,
undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging,
unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing,
unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving,
untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking,
utterly attentive, vehement, watchful, weariless, zealous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
persevering
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