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(adj)
Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.
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Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.
Very able and ingenious in business dealings or social advancement.
(colloquial) Having gumption.
Characterised by force or vigour; full of energy; lively, vigorous, furious.
(idiomatic) Emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim.
Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue
Not able to be tired; inexhaustible.
(n)
Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
(of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
Expressive of strenuous effort.
Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
Using significant amounts of time, especially in an unwanted and sometimes unwarranted manner.
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
Alternative form of hardworking. [Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.]
Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.
Of a person: diligent in application or pursuit; constant and persevering in business or in endeavours to effect a goal; steadily industrious.
Tending to persevere.
Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion, particularly in matters of religion.
Used or intended for a particular purpose
Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
Dedicated to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books
Never tiring or lacking energy; without rest; without slowing.
Very industrious.
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
Extremely hardworking or demanding
Extremely persistent and untiring.
Excessively industrious.
Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
(rare) Full of activity or work; laborious; industrious.
Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
Alternative spelling of workie. [(slang) An intern.]
A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
Needing urgent attention.
Ambitious, go-getting.
Unremitting, steady and persistent.
Laborious; work-intensive.
Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
Alternative form of over-industrious. [Excessively industrious.]
(of a person) Tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
Having been obtained with effort, despite difficulty and hardship.
(simile, idiomatic) Able to endure difficulties; tough
Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
Focusing on, requiring, or exacting a great deal of work or effort; worksome; labour-intensive.
Alternative form of daur. [(India, obsolete) A foray or hasty expedition.]
(now rare) Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious.
Misspelling of persistent. [Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.]
Making great demands in terms of quality, quantity, accuracy or other criteria; difficult to satisfy.
Having been obtained with a great deal of effort.
Subject to strenuous effort or tough competition.
Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.
(simile, idiomatic, dated, Ireland) working constantly.
(of a demand) Persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
Generous and tireless with one's contributions of money, time, etc.
Producing or involving much toil; laborious.
Always busy; never at rest.
Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
The current holder of an office or title; (specifically, Christianity) the holder of an ecclesiastical benefice.
Alternative form of laboured. [Expressive of strenuous effort.]
Difficult to endure; arduous.
Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.
(loosely) Possessing power, might, or strength.
Covered in sweat.
(American spelling) Requiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.
Strongly or fanatically determined or devoted.
(India) Full of struggle; difficult, hard.
(US, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) Of a person: having a very difficult personality; being a perfectionist.
Alternative form of hard-fought. [Achieved through a large effort.]
enterprising, like a go-getter
covetous; niggardly
Achieved through a large effort.
(simile, idiomatic) Very active; working constantly.
(of a task) Requiring great exertion; very laborious.
Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
Subject to difficulty in accomplishing or making progress.
Enthusiastic and generous.
Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
Too diligent.
Possessing great physical or political power.
Suggestive of drudgery; being excessively hard or requiring excessive effort.
Restless, short of temper, and intolerant of delays.
(obsolete or humorous, nautical) a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
Requiring or showing effort.
(figuratively, by extension) Hardened by experience.
Deeply rooted; persistent.
Extremely disciplined.
Involving hard, sustained effort.
Allowing for or capable of negotiation.
(informal) Full of hassle; tiresome and strenuous.
Ambitious or competitive.