diligent

From Middle English diligent, from Old French diligent, from Latin dīligēns (“careful, attentive, diligent”), present participle of dīligō (“to love, esteem much”, literally “to choose, select”), from dī-, dis- (“apart”) + legō (“to choose”); see elect and select.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪlɪdʒənt/

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diligent (comparative more diligent, superlative most diligent)

1. Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.

   Scientists are very diligent in their work.

• deligent (archaic)

• See also Thesaurus:industrious

• diligence

• “diligent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “diligent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin diligentem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [di.liˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [di.liˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.liˈd͡ʒent]

diligent m or f (masculine and feminine plural diligents)

1. diligent (performing with intense concentration)

• diligentment

• diligència

• “diligent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin diligentem.

• IPA^(key): /di.li.ʒɑ̃/

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diligent (feminine diligente, masculine plural diligents, feminine plural diligentes)

1. diligent (performing with intense concentration)

• diligemment

• diligence

• “diligent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

dīligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dīligō

Borrowed from Latin diligens or French diligent.

diligent m or n (feminine singular diligentă, masculine plural diligenți, feminine and neuter plural diligente)

1. diligent