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Definition of Diligent

1. Adjective. Quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness. "With persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business"

2. Adjective. Characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks. "A diligent search of the files"

Definition of Diligent

1. a. Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

Definition of Diligent

1. Adjective. Performing with intense concentration, focus, responsible regard. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diligent

1. persevering [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diligent

dileptonic dileptons dilettanteish dilettanteism dilettanteisms dilettantes dilettanti dilettantish dilettantism dilettantisms

dileucine diligence diligences diligency diligent (current term) diligently diligentness dilithium dill dill oil

dill pickle dill seed dill weed dilled dillenia dilleniid dicot family dilleniid dicot genus dilli dillier

Literary usage of Diligent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"That ordinarily prudent and diligent men. accepting election to membership in a hank directorate, would nnt willfully absent themselves from directors' ..."

2. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"She had a hen-like, crumb- pecking, diligent appearance. Her smile was too innocent. The pecking started instantly: "Cy says you had lots of fun at the ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"... extracts from deeds of grant of various kinds in favour of a monastery near Thebes in Egypt, written in Coptic, of which Goodwin was a diligent student. ..."

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