busy, industrious, diligent, assiduous, sedulous mean actively engaged or occupied. busy chiefly stresses activity as opposed to idleness or leisure.
too busy to spend time with the children industrious implies characteristic or habitual devotion to work.
industrious employees diligent suggests earnest application to some specific object or pursuit.
very diligent in her pursuit of a degree assiduous stresses careful and unremitting application.
assiduous practice sedulous implies painstaking and persevering application.
a sedulous investigation of the murder
Examples of industrious in a Sentence
He is an industrious worker.
an industrious worker who never seems to sleep
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