assiduous

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• UK: /əˈsɪdjuːəs/
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• UK: /əˈsɪd͡ʒuːəs/
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• General-American: /əˈsɪd͡ʒu.əs/
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 S IH1 D W AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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A learned borrowing from Latin assiduus, from assidere (“to sit down to”), from ad- (“to”) + sedere (“to sit”). Compare sedulous. Cognate (via assidere) to assess.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: աշխատասեր (ašxataser) — hard-working
• Bulgarian: усърден (usǎrden) — hard-working
• Bulgarian: прилежен (priležen) — hard-working
• Bulgarian: старателен (staratelen) — hard-working
• Chinese Cantonese: 努力嘅 (nou5 lik6 ge3) — hard-working
• Czech: pilný — hard-working
• Czech: pečlivý — hard-working
• Czech: svědomitý — hard-working
• Dutch: ijverig — hard-working
• Dutch: vlijtig — hard-working
• Dutch: betrouwbaar — hard-working
• Esperanto: asidua — hard-working
• Finnish: ahkera — hard-working
• Finnish: uuttera — hard-working
• French: assidu — hard-working
• German: fleißig — hard-working
• German: geflissen — hard-working
• German: gewissenhaft — hard-working
• Greek: επιμελής (epimelís) — hard-working
• Greek: εργατικός (ergatikós) — hard-working
• Hungarian: kötelességtudó — hard-working
• Ido: asidua — hard-working
• Indonesian: tekun — hard-working
• Indonesian: giat — hard-working
• Indonesian: rajin — hard-working
• Indonesian: kerja keras — hard-working
• Irish: dúthrachtach — hard-working
• Italian: assiduo — hard-working
• Japanese: 真面目 (majime) — hard-working
• Korean: 부지런한 (bujireonhan) — hard-working
• Polish: gorliwy — hard-working
• Polish: sumienny — hard-working
• Polish: wytrwały — hard-working
• Portuguese: assíduo — hard-working
• Portuguese: trabalhador — hard-working
• Portuguese: diligente — hard-working
• Romanian: asiduu — hard-working
• Romanian: stăruitor — hard-working
• Romanian: harnic — hard-working
• Russian: стара́тельный (starátelʹnyj) — hard-working
• Russian: приле́жный (priléžnyj) — hard-working
• Russian: усе́рдный (usérdnyj) — hard-working
• Scottish Gaelic: leanmhainneach — hard-working
• Serbo-Croatian: prilježno — hard-working
• Serbo-Croatian: usrdno — hard-working
• Serbo-Croatian: marno — hard-working
• Spanish: asiduo — hard-working
• Swedish: flitig — hard-working
• Thai: ขยัน (kà-yǎn) — hard-working
• Ukrainian: працьовитий (pracʹovytyj) — hard-working