different between industrious vs indefatigable

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)

1. 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.

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

English

Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin ind?fat?g?bilis (“untiring”), from in- (“not”) + d?fat?g? (“to tire out”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nd??fæt???bl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nd??fæt???b?l/, [??nd??fæ????b?l]
• (sometimes proscribed) IPA^(key): /??nd?f??ti??b?l/
• Hyphenation: in?de?fa?tig?a?ble

Adjective

indefatigable (comparative more indefatigable, superlative most indefatigable)

1. Extremely persistent and untiring.

   Synonyms: inexhaustible, relentless, tireless, unflagging, unsinkable, untiring, unwearying

   Antonym: (much less common) defatigable

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