industrious
adjective/ɪnˈdʌstriəs/
/ɪnˈdʌstriəs/
(approving)- working hard; busy synonym hard-working
- an industrious student
- She was surrounded by energetic, industrious people.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘skilful, clever, ingenious’): from French industrieux or late Latin industriosus, from Latin industria ‘diligence’.
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