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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

to be very hard working, diligent, and/or productive;

e.g. Michigan steelworkers have proved to be very industrious people.

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Similar Words

Active

Assiduous

Bustling

Busy

Busyness

Competitive

Diligent

Engaged

Hardworking

High-flying

Hopping

Laborious

Motivated

Opportunistic

Sedulous

Working

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Opposite Words

Asleep

Dead

Dormant

Dull

Fallow

Free

Good-for-nothing

Idle

Inactive

Indolent

Inert

Inoperative

Interrupted

Lackadaisical

Languid

Languorous

Latent

Lazy

Lethargic

Lifeless

Limp

Listless

No-account

No-good

Nonoperating

Off

Passive

Quiescent

Sedentary

Shelf

Sleepy

Slow

Sluggardly

Sluggish

Spiritless

Torpid

Unambitious

Unemployed

Unexcited

Unoccupied

Vacant

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Related Words

Absorbed

Alive

Ambitious

Animated

Aspiring

Astir

Energetic

Flourishing

Functional

Going

Happening

Hard-driving

Hardworking

Indefatigable

Inexhaustible

Intent

Knee-deep

Lively

Living

Operating

Operational

Operative

Preoccupied

Pushing

Running

Self-seeking

Thriving

Tireless

Untiring

Vibrant

Vigorous

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Phrases

• eager beaver

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