Diligent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DILIGENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• persevering
• careful and persevering in carrying out duties
• Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.
• Interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.
• quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
• characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks
• having or showing care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties

Words related to DILIGENT

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Words that contain DILIGENT

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How to use DILIGENT in a sentence

• He was a diligent, useful, and valued member of the Committee of Ways and Means, and at an important period of our political history was its Chairman.
• The result of these enquiries, however diligent, was not entirely satisfactory.
• Such, I am afraid, are always hovering about our consultations, and I know not why our ministers should be less diligent or less successful than those of other princes.
• Several other sailors were diligent readers, though their studies did not lie in the way of belles-lettres.
• And he was upon the road three days, and upon the morning of the fourth day he came, through diligent inquiry, within sight of the castle of King Pecheur.
• Since that time I began to have other thoughts, and after eighteen years diligent study and application, I think I have no reason to repent of my pains.
• So diligent was he that he was free before morning and walked deliberately out of the tent.
• He was dependent, necessarily, upon facts and principles brought to light by similar diligent, patient minds which had gone before him.
• He was so obliging and diligent during the voyage, that he more than compensated the captain for his passage.
• The summer passed in the diligent companionship of the oxen and Sam Doolittle.
• LEE was diligent in the service of his constituents and in behalf of policies which commended themselves to his favor.
• If he saw me, or heard me approaching, he became at once very alert and diligent until I spoke to him, then he stopped work at once.
• As bishop, Cuthbert was diligent in preaching, protected the poor from their oppressors, lived on very little, and fed and clothed the poor.
• A young lawyer, after diligent preparation and exhaustive argument, confidently submitted his first case to the tender mercies of the Court.
• We might go through the most important moral phenomena in War, and with all the care of a diligent professor try what we could impart about each, either good or bad.
• Down I went, they paying diligent attendance on my steps.
• He was a member of the House of Burgesses, diligent in his attention to the work of governing the colony.
• It is a very busy church, and for being busy and diligent it is to be commended, but I believe there is too much organization.
• Cornwallis had been informed that Forney had a large amount of money concealed somewhere in his premises, and that if diligent search were made it might be readily found.
• By diligent hunting, she found several opportunities.
• Through the long years of storm and stress which make up the greater part of the history of the colony, the Sovereign Council rendered diligent and faithful service.
• Tenacious, diligent, faithful to the torment of his neighbour, not to be torn from his purpose, nature had not formed him for nothing.
• Brand made many diligent inquiries after the truth of this point.
• I have determined this week to be more diligent, as Mr.
• Of his first service little is known, except the immense fact that he was a most diligent reader.
• All this material is already available to the diligent reader.
• Now they are generally a sedate, thoughtful, sober, diligent, and honest people.

Similar words containing DILIG without suffix ent

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