different between industrious vs untiring
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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untiring
English
Etymology
From un- +? tiring
Adjective
untiring (not comparable)
- Not able to be tired; inexhaustible.
- 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.
- 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China
Synonyms
- tireless
Translations
References
- “untiring” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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