sedulous

Speech parts

1. sedulous - Adjective

2. sedulous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

assiduous diligent laborious industrious unremitting persevering untiring particular active determined hard constant engaged dynamic steady
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Antonyms

slack sleepyhead sleepy dead slow passive
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Related terms

sedulity

Phrases with the word

sedulous learner

Examples

I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann. (...) That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write whether I have profited or not, that is the way. Robert Louis Stevenson

The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds. Pauline Neville-Jones

her assiduous attempts to learn French Source: Internet

assiduous research Source: Internet

sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

seductour seductress sedulity sedulous learner sedulously sedulousness