(formal) showing care and effort in your work or duties:
a diligent student / worker * After a diligent search, the police found the missing child.
diligently adverb:
They worked diligently on the task they had been given.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for diligent is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is diligent a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, diligent is tagged as adjective.
Does diligent appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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