assiduously
Americanadverb
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with careful and consistent effort; diligently or tirelessly.
The Department of Health is still working assiduously with the schools to prevent further spread of the disease.
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constantly; ceaselessly.
He referred to the boys assiduously as “gentlemen.”
Other Word Forms
- unassiduously adverb
Etymology
Origin of assiduously
Explanation
Something done assiduously is done with care and dedication. If you assiduously count your lemonade stand earnings, you tally up the dimes and quarters very carefully, possibly counting them twice to make sure you get it right. Diligence, care, thoroughness, precision — all of these describe what's needed to do something assiduously. It comes from the Latin word assiduus, which means "busy, incessant, continual, or constant." The people who shelf books at your local library do so assiduously — they take great care to put the books exactly where they belong in the stacks so that others can find them.
Vocabulary lists containing assiduously
A Tale of Two Cities
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"A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry
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Hidden Figures
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Example Sentences
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While these values don’t have to come from religion, they have to be found somewhere and practiced assiduously.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Mr. Currey asks an important question about Genet, but assays no answer: “Was it prison that enabled his writing, or was it the act of theft that he practiced so assiduously during all those years?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
But his victims - many of whom assiduously attended the three-month-long trial in Vannes, northern France - are lamenting the sentence.
From BBC • May 29, 2025
"We're not going to go into hypotheticals other than to say we've been preparing assiduously for all these outcomes," said EU spokesman Olof Gill.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025
The work was tracked assiduously by a parade of fascinated foundation executives; for ten days in April, it was the turn of Rockefeller executive Frank B. Hanson.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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