Definition of Diligent

1. Adjective. Quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness. "With persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business"

Exact synonyms: Persevering
Similar to: Patient
Derivative terms: Diligence

2. Adjective. Characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks. "A diligent search of the files"
Also: Busy, Careful
Similar to: Assiduous, Sedulous, Hardworking, Industrious, Tireless, Untiring
Derivative terms: Diligence
Antonyms: Negligent

Definition of Diligent

1. a. Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

Definition of Diligent

1. Adjective. Performing with intense concentration, focus, responsible regard. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diligent

1. persevering [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diligent

dileptonic
dileptons
dilettanteish
dilettanteism
dilettanteisms
dilettantes
dilettanti
dilettantish
dilettantism
dilettantisms
dileucine
diligence
diligences
diligency
diligent (current term)
diligently
diligentness
dilithium
dill
dill oil
dill pickle
dill seed
dill weed
dilled
dillenia
dilleniid dicot family
dilleniid dicot genus
dilli
dillier

Literary usage of Diligent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"That ordinarily prudent and diligent men. accepting election to membership in a hank directorate, would nnt willfully absent themselves from directors' ..."

2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"She had a hen-like, crumb- pecking, diligent appearance. Her smile was too innocent. The pecking started instantly: "Cy says you had lots of fun at the ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"... extracts from deeds of grant of various kinds in favour of a monastery near Thebes in Egypt, written in Coptic, of which Goodwin was a diligent student. ..."

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