adv
Meaning 1
In a diligent manner, with appropriate effort, carefully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
diligently
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒ(ə)ntli/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈdɪləd͡ʒən(t)li/
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CMU ARPABET: D IH1 L AH0 JH AH0 N T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
with diligence; in a diligent manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we may diligently observe the Lord's supper on the first day of the week, diligently preach the gospel, or minister to the saint
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English diligent Middle English -ly English -ly English diligently From diligent + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بِجِدّ (bi-jidd) — in a diligent manner
- Catalan: diligentment — in a diligent manner
- Chinese Mandarin: 努力 (nǔlì) — in a diligent manner
- Finnish: tunnollisesti — in a diligent manner
- Finnish: huolellisesti — in a diligent manner
- French: diligemment — in a diligent manner
- Galician: dilixentemente — in a diligent manner
- German: fleißig — in a diligent manner
- Hungarian: szorgalmasan — in a diligent manner
- Italian: diligentemente — in a diligent manner
- Japanese: 精を出して (sei o dashite) — in a diligent manner
- Japanese: 勉めて (tsutomete) — in a diligent manner
- Korean: 열심히 (yeolsimhi) — in a diligent manner
- Eastern Mari: виян (vijan) — in a diligent manner
- Navajo: wolí bee — in a diligent manner
- Navajo: tʼóó báhádzigo — in a diligent manner
- Polish: pilnie — in a diligent manner
- Portuguese: diligentemente — in a diligent manner
- Russian: усе́рдно (usérdno) — in a diligent manner
- Russian: приле́жно (priléžno) — in a diligent manner
- Russian: стара́тельно (starátelʹno) — in a diligent manner
- Serbo-Croatian: marljivo — in a diligent manner
- Slovak: usilovne — in a diligent manner
- Spanish: diligentemente — in a diligent manner
- Spanish: con esmero — in a diligent manner
- Swedish: flitigt — in a diligent manner
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