industrious
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈdʌstɹi.əs/
industrious
- Hard-working and persistent.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
- I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- See also Thesaurus:industrious
- French: industrieux, diligent
- German: fleißig, arbeitsam, eifrig
- Italian: industrioso, laborioso
- Portuguese: industrioso, trabalhador, esforçado, laborioso, diligente
- Russian: приле́жный
- Spanish: aplicado, trabajador, laborioso, empeñoso, afanoso, industrioso, diligente
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