different between industrious vs engaged
industrious
English
Etymology
From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?d?st?i.?s/
Adjective
industrious (comparative more industrious, superlative most industrious)
- Hard-working and persistent.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- 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?
- I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:industrious
Antonyms
- lazy
Derived terms
- industriousness
Related terms
- industrial
- industry
- industriousness
Translations
Further reading
- industrious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- industrious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- industrious at OneLook Dictionary Search
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engaged
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n??e?d?d/, /?n??e?d?d/
Verb
engaged
- simple past tense and past participle of engage
Adjective
engaged (not comparable)
- Agreed to be married.
- Busy or employed.
- Greatly interested.
- (Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls
- I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
- 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature (page 81)
- Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.
- 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature (page 81)
Synonyms
- (of a telephone): (US) busy
Related terms
- engage
- engagement
Translations
See also
- (agreed to be married): fiancée, fiancé
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