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diligent 音标拼音: [d'ɪlɪdʒənt] a. 勤勉的,用功的 勤勉的,用功的 diligent adj 1: quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; " a diligent ( or patient) worker"; " with persevering ( or patient) industry she revived the failing business" [ synonym: { diligent}, { persevering}] 2: characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks; " a diligent detective investigates all clues"; " a diligent search of the files" [ ant: { negligent}] Diligent \ Dil" i* gent\, a. [ F. diligent, L. diligens, - entis, p. pr. of diligere, dilectum, to esteem highly, prefer; di- = dis- legere to choose. See { Legend}.] 1. Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent. [ 1913 Webster] The judges shall make diligent inquisition. -- Deut. xix. 18. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious. [ 1913 Webster] Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings. -- Prov. xxii. 29. [ 1913 Webster] Diligent cultivation of elegant literature. -- Prescott. Syn: Active; assiduous; sedulous; laborious; persevering; attentive; industrious. [ 1913 Webster] 129 Moby Thesaurus words for " diligent": academic, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, ardent, assiduous, attentive, aware, bookish, careful, concentrated, conscientious, conscious, constant, continuing, devoted to studies, dogged, donnish, dryasdust, earnest, elaborate, enduring, energetic, faithful, fervent, finical, finicking, finicky, hard, hard- working, hardworking, heedful, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, intense, intent, intentive, invincible, laborious, lasting, loyal, mandarin, meticulous, mindful, never idle, never- tiring, nice, niggling, observant, observing, obstinate, on the ball, on the job, open- eared, open- eyed, openmouthed, operose, owlish, painstaking, patient, patient as Job, pedantic, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, professorial, punctilious, rabbinic, rapt, regardful, relentless, resolute, scholarly, scholastic, scrupulous, sedulous, single- minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady, strenuous, stubborn, studious, tenacious, thorough, thoroughgoing, tireless, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vehement, watchful, weariless, zealous
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