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# industrious

«industrious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Hard-working; always busy and putting in steady effort** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (industrious, more industrious, most industrious)

### meaning for a pupil

Hard-working; always busy and putting in steady effort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A praising word for people and animals: ants, bees and beavers are called industrious. In school reports, «industrious» praises a pupil who works steadily. In stories it contrasts with lazy characters, like the busy Mole spring-cleaning versus idle Toad. Note: «industrial» (about factories) is a different word.

### examples

- Ants are industrious little creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/#x1)
- Our teacher wrote that I am an industrious pupil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/#x2)
- The industrious beavers built a dam across the stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/#x3)
- Mole was industrious, spring-cleaning his little home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/#x4)
- The industrious baker was up at four every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/#x5)
- The fable of the ant and the grasshopper praises the industrious ant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/#x6)
- And she was industrious and thoughtful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/#x7)

### note

Adjective from «industry» in its old meaning of hard work. Adverb: industriously; noun: industriousness. Trap: «industrial» means to do with factories and industry; «industrious» means hard-working.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «industrious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/industrious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.