different between diligent vs untiring

English

Etymology

From Middle English diligent, from Old French diligent, from Latin d?lig?ns (“careful, attentive, diligent”), present participle of d?lig? (“to love, esteem much, literally to choose, select”), from d?-, dis- (“apart”) + leg? (“to choose”); see elect and select.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?l?d??nt/

Adjective

diligent (comparative more diligent, superlative most diligent)

1. Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.

Alternative forms

• deligent (archaic)

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:industrious

Derived terms

• diligently

Related terms

• diligence

Translations

Further reading

• diligent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• diligent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin diligens.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /di.li??ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /di.li??en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.li?d??ent/

Adjective

diligent (masculine and feminine plural diligents)

1. diligent (performing with intense concentration)

Derived terms

• diligentment

Related terms

• diligència

Further reading

• “diligent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin diligens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.li.???/

Adjective

diligent (feminine singular diligente, masculine plural diligents, feminine plural diligentes)

1. diligent (performing with intense concentration)

Derived terms

• diligemment

Related terms

• diligence

Further reading

• “diligent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

d?ligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of d?lig?

English

Etymology

From un- +? tiring

Adjective

untiring (not comparable)

1. Not able to be tired; inexhaustible.
2. Unfailing; resolute.
   • 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China

     A generation ago Chien-ch'ang was perhaps the least known part of all China to the outside world. About the middle of the thirteenth century the Mongol, Kublai Khan, acting as general of the forces of his brother, Genghis Khan, went through here to the conquest of Tali, then an independent kingdom in the southwest, and the untiring Venetian following in his train noted a few of the characteristics of Caindu, the name he gave both to the valley and the capital city.

Synonyms

• tireless

Translations

References

• “untiring” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.