different between thoroughgoing vs industrious

English

Etymology

From thorough +? going (adjective).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???????????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???????o???/, /-?o?/
• Hyphenation: tho?rough?go?ing

Adjective

thoroughgoing (comparative more thoroughgoing, superlative most thoroughgoing)

1. With great attention to detail; complete, thorough.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:total

   • 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, New York: J.S. Redfield, p.50, [1]

     It must be reiterated, as, for the purpose of these Memoranda, the deep lesson of History and Time, that all else in the contributions of a nation or age, through its politics, materials, heroic personalities, military eclat, &c., remains crude, and defers, in any close and thorough-going estimate, until vitalized by national, original archetypes in literature.

   • 1927, T. S. Eliot, "The Humanism of Irving Babbitt," in Selected Essays, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964, p. 425,

     I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 182, [2]

     Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left.

   • 1967, Time, "Marijuana is Still Illegal," 29 December, 1967, [3]

     After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made.

Alternative forms

• thorough-going

Hypernyms

• going

Derived terms

• thoroughgoingly

Related terms

• thoroughgo (obsolete)
• thoroughgoer (rare)

Translations

References

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