Adjective: industrious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more industrious |
| Superlative | most industrious |
Sample Sentences
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He was a very industrious student at school.
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like industrious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.