industriously

adverb

Definition of industriouslynext
1
as in diligently
with great effort or determination worked industriously to complete the project ahead of schedule

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2
as in actively
in a manner involving great or constant activity she's been industriously putting together the plans for the charity ball

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for industriously
  1. diligently
  2. actively
  3. hard
  4. intensively
  5. intently
  6. intensely
  7. assiduously
  8. arduously
Adverb
  • The bad news for Democrats is that Republicans will spend the next two months working diligently to change that.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026
  • This person started out diligently highlighting and taking notes.
    — Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of diligently
Adverb
  • Yet political room for compromise within Canada remains limited, as the country actively takes steps to reduce its reliance on the US market.
    — , CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • This will allow the engineering team to actively construct, test, and refine system components in real-world conditions.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of actively
Adverb
  • Vucic has pushed hard against the protesters, sparking international concern over police violence and arbitrary detentions.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • From a security standpoint, verifying political senders can help make impersonation harder.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of hard
Adverb
  • The pork producers group has also intensively lobbied for legislation called the Save Our Bacon Act, which would overturn the state laws.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Whalers hunted bowheads intensively in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, pushing them towards extinction.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of intensively
Adverb
  • That won her support from journalists at NBC News, but not necessarily the corporation, which, like many other media conglomerates is focused more intently on squeezing whatever revenue is to be gleaned from broadcast operations.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Geese’s lead singer, Cameron Winter, is stretched out at full length on a comfortable chair in another corner of the room, gazing intently at a phone with a single large crack marring its screen.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of intently
Adverb
  • This can produce a layer of intensely hot plasma around the vehicle.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Lee questioned the government’s attorneys intensely, seeming skeptical of their arguments.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of intensely
Adverb
  • Netflix has worked assiduously to burnish its reputation as a home for advertisers seeking to align themselves with its popular programs and eager to avoid the traditional model of deploying typical 30-second commercials.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The Austrian Alpine Club bills itself as the country’s largest youth organization, with more than seven hundred thousand members—close to a tenth of the population—assiduously steered toward skiing, hiking, camping, climbing.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of assiduously
Adverb
  • After an arduously long winter, these narrow, modestly sized shops have been—with a suddenness and intensity that only TikTok and Instagram can foment—thronged.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The team sequenced the DNA of 38 different mosquitoes belonging to 11 species within the Leucosphyrus group, which had been arduously collected during fieldwork between 1992 and 2020 across Southeast Asia.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
Definition of arduously
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“Industriously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/industriously. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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