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Synonyms & Antonyms for industrious
Synonyms
active, assiduous, bustling, busy, diligent, employed, engaged, hopping, laborious, occupied, sedulous, tied-up, working
Antonyms
idle, inactive, unbusy, unemployed, unoccupied
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Liverpool's midfield had been seen as a little one-dimensional before Keita joined, with Jordan Henderson, James Milner and Georginio Wijnaldum all viewed as industrious, yet lacking a little creativity. — SI.com, "6 Players That Will Be Like New Signings for Liverpool Next Season," 8 July 2019 Elsinore is an adventure game that places you in the shoes of this industrious, careful, heroic Ophelia. — Julie Muncy, WIRED, "Elsinore Smartly Reimagines Hamlet with Ophelia as the Hero," 8 Aug. 2019 For a vast swath of the American public, Mr. Iacocca was the face, the voice and the symbol of the car business in Detroit at its most resourceful and industrious. — Bart Barnes, Washington Post, "Auto industry icon Lee Iacocca dies at 94. He helped launch the Ford Mustang and saved Chrysler from bankruptcy.," 2 July 2019 Woodpeckers The nesting cavities drilled into trees or even utility poles by this industrious bird are used as shelter by many other birds and mammals who can’t do the work themselves. — Liz Langley, National Geographic, "These animals make homes for other species," 25 June 2019 For a vast swath of the American public, Iacocca was the face, the voice and the symbol of the car business in Detroit at its most resourceful and industrious. — Bart Barnes, The Denver Post, "Lee Iacocca, who rescued Chrysler from bankruptcy in the 1980s, dies at 94," 2 July 2019 In recent years local kingpins have been putting the industrious locals to new work: felling the hills’ forests to get at the coal, limestone, China clay and even gold underneath. — The Economist, "The South Asian monsoon, past, present and future," 27 June 2019 Beekeepers and other boosters of the industrious insects are instead furious that the San Diego Padres appeared to have called in an exterminator to kill the bees, KGTV reported. — Don Sweeney, sacbee, "Bee lovers furious at slaying of swarm that interrupted a San Diego Padres ballgame," 4 June 2019 DeNucci smartly makes the story about Deuce, an industrious, good-hearted rogue, frustrated by his lack of career advancement. — Noel Murray, latimes.com, "Reviews for ‘Daughter of the Wolf,’ ‘Lost Angelas,’ ‘Head Count,’ ‘Killer Unicorn,’ ‘Vault’," 13 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'industrious.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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