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adjective
- 1. having or showing care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties: "after diligent searching, he found a parcel"
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The meaning of DILIGENT is characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort : painstaking. How to use diligent in a sentence.
DILIGENT definition: 1. careful and using a lot of effort: 2. done in a careful and detailed way: 3. careful and using…. Learn more.
Someone who is diligent works hard in a careful and thorough way. Meyers is a diligent and prolific worker. The historical research was impressively diligent. The police are pursuing their inquiries with great diligence. The two sides are now working diligently to resolve their differences. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Diligent comes from the Latin diligere, which means "to value highly, take delight in," but in English it has always meant careful and hard-working. If you're a diligent worker, you don't just bang away at your job; you earnestly try to do everything right.
Diligent definition: constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything. See examples of DILIGENT used in a sentence.
DILIGENT meaning: 1. careful and using a lot of effort: 2. done in a careful and detailed way: 3. careful and using…. Learn more.
Diligent connotes steady, meticulous attention to an ongoing job or task: " [They] have won international renown for their diligent efforts to track down software bugs" (Hiawatha Bray).
What does the word diligent mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word diligent, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.
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