Diligent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              The judges shall make diligent inquisition. --Deut.
                                                    xix. 18.
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     2. Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and
        earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous;
        industrious.
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              Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall
              stand before kings.                   --Prov. xxii.
                                                    29.
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              Diligent cultivation of elegant literature.
                                                    --Prescott.
  
     Syn: Active; assiduous; sedulous; laborious; persevering;
          attentive; industrious.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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" [syn: {persevering}]
       2: characterized by care and perseverence in carrying out
          tasks; "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a
          diligent search of the files" [ant: {negligent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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