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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard-working |
| Synonyms: | active, attentive, busy, constant, diligent, eager beaver, exacting, grinding, indefatigable, industrious, laborious, persevering, plugging, scrupulous, sedulous, steady, studious, unflagging, untiring, whiz, zealous |
| Antonyms: | lazy, neglectful, negligent |
| Main Entry: | busy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | engaged, at work |
| Synonyms: | active, already taken, 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 |
| Antonyms: | idle, quiet, unbusy, unemployed, unengaged |
| Main Entry: | careful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious; painstaking |
| Synonyms: | accurate, alert, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, chary, choosy, circumspect, concerned, conscientious, conservative, cool, deliberate, discreet, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fussy, going to great lengths, guarded, heedful, judicious, leery, meticulous, mindful, observant, particular, playing safe, precise, prim, protective, provident, prudent, punctilious, regardful, religious, rigorous, scrupulous, selfdisciplined, shy, sober, solicitous, solid, thorough, thoughtful, vigilant, wary |
| Antonyms: | careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unconcerned, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | diligent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | persevering, hard-working |
| Synonyms: | active, assiduous, attentive, busy, careful, conscientious, constant, eager, eager beaver, earnest, grind*, indefatigable, industrious, laborious, occupied, operose, painstaking, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plugging, sedulous, steadfast, studious, tireless, unflagging, unrelenting, untiring |
| Antonyms: | inactive, indifferent, languid, lazy, lethargic, negligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | engrossed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preoccupied; attentive to |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, all wound up, assiduous, bugged, busy, captivated, caught up, caught up in, consumed, deep, diligent, engaged, enthralled, fascinated, fiend for, gone*, gripped, head over heels, heavily into, hooked, hung up, immersed, industrious, intent, into*, intrigued, lost, monopolized, occupied, rapt, really into, riveted, sedulous, submerged, taken up with, tied up, turned on, up to here in, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | bored, disenthralled, disinterested, ignoring, inattentive, oblivious, uncaring, uninterested, unoccupied |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indefatigable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untiring |
| Synonyms: | active, assiduous, bound and determined, dead set on, determined, diligent, dogged, energetic, hell-bent, industrious, inexhaustible, ironclad, nose to grindstone, painstaking, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, relentless, sedulous, steadfast, stop at nothing, strenuous, tireless, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unremitting, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | fatigued, tired, weary |
| Main Entry: | industrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardworking |
| Synonyms: | active, assiduous, ball of fire, burning, busy, conscientious, diligent, dynamic, eager, energetic, grind*, in full swing, intent, involved, jumping, laborious, on the go, operose, perky*, persevering, persistent, plugging, productive, psyched up on, purposeful, sedulous, spirited, steady, tireless, zealous |
| Antonyms: | idle, inactive, indolent, lackadaisical, lazy, lethargic, slack, unemployed, unproductive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | laborious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardworking |
| Synonyms: | active, assiduous, diligent, indefatigable, industrious, operose, painstaking, persevering, sedulous, tireless, unflagging |
| Antonyms: | idle, lackadaisical, lazy, reticent |
| Main Entry: | painstaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meticulous, thorough |
| Synonyms: | assiduous, by the book, by the numbers, careful, conscientious, conscionable, diligent, earnest, exact, exacting, finicky, fussbudget, fussy, hard-working, heedful, industrious, particular, persevering, persnickety*, picky, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, sedulous, stickler, strenuous, thoroughgoing |
| Antonyms: | careless, easy, half-baked, half-done, thoughtless, unmindful, unthorough |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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