different between untiring vs conscientious

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin c?nscienti?sus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n?i??n??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n?i??n??s/

Adjective

conscientious (comparative more conscientious, superlative most conscientious)

1. Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance.

2. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).

Antonyms

• capricious
• impulsive

Derived terms

• conscientiously
• conscientiousness
• conscientious objector

Related terms

• conscience

Translations

Further reading

• conscientious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• conscientious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “vigilance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.