industrious

What it means

1. Hard-working and persistent.

   He was a very industrious student at school.

   1 more example

   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?

   1941, Ogden Nash, The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, The ant, page 224

   Synonyms: assiduous, diligent, dogged, hardworking, notable, sedulous, studious, painstaking

In a sentence

He was a very industrious student at school.

Where it comes from

1. Latinindustria“diligence, industry”
2. Late Latinindustriosus“diligent, active, industrious”
3. Middle Frenchindustrieux
4. Englishindustrious

From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.