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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conscientious |
| Synonyms: | assiduous, dedicated, diligent, persevering, sedulous |
| Antonyms: | lazy |
| Main Entry: | enterprising |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resourceful, energetic |
| Synonyms: | active, advancing, adventurous, aggressive, alert, ambitious, aspiring, audacious, bold, busy, coming on strong, craving, daring, dashing, diligent, driving, eager, enthusiastic, go-ahead, go-go, gumptious, hard ball, hardworking, hungry, hustling, industrious, intrepid, itching, keen, lively, lusting, peppy, progressive, pushing, ready, self-starting, snappy, spanking, spark plug, spirited, stirring, take-over, up-and-coming, venturesome, vigorous, yearning, zealous, zippy |
| Antonyms: | inactive, passive, unadventurous, unambitious, unenthused, unimaginative, unresourceful |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very involved in activity |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, agile, alert, alive, animated, assiduous, bold, brisk, bustling, busy, chipper, daring, dashing, determined, dexterous, diligent, dynamic, eager, energetic, engaged, enlivened, enterprising, enthusiastic, eventful, fireball, forceful, forcible, fresh, frisky, hard-working, high-spirited, hyper, industrious, intense, inventive, jumping, keen, lively, nimble, on the move, perky, persevering, purposeful, pushing, quick, rapid, ready, resolute, sharp, sprightly, spry, whiz*, zealous |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, idle, indifferent, lazy, quiescent, quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
| Main Entry: | sedulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | assiduous |
| Synonyms: | active, busy, determined, diligent, hard-working, industrious, laborious, persevering, plugging, tireless |
| Main Entry: | studious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scholarly, attentive |
| Synonyms: | academic, assiduous, bookish, bookworm, busy, careful, contemplative, diligent, eager, earnest, grubbing, hard-working, industrious, intellectual, learned, lettered, meditative, reflective, sedulous, serious, thoughtful, well-informed, well-read |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, inattentive, lazy, unscholarly |
| Main Entry: | tireless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | determined |
| Synonyms: | active, ball of fire, eager, energetic, enthusiastic, grind, hard-working, hyper, incessant, indefatigable, industrious, jumping, on the go, perky, persevering, resolute, steadfast, strenuous, unflagging, untiring, unwearied, unwearying, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | beat, tired, unenthusiastic, weary, worn out |
| Main Entry: | unwearied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tireless |
| Synonyms: | active, ball of fire, eager, energetic, enthusiastic, grind*, hard-working*, hyper*, incessant, indefatigable, industrious, inexhaustible, jumping, on the go, perky, persevering, resolute, steadfast, strenuous, unfailing, unflagging, untiring, unwearying, vigorous, weariless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weariless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tireless |
| Synonyms: | active, ball of fire, eager, energetic, enthusiastic, grind*, hard-working*, hyper*, incessant, indefatigable, industrious, inexhaustible, jumping, on the go, perky, persevering, resolute, steadfast, strenuous, unfailing, unflagging, untiring, unwearied, unwearying, vigorous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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