sedulous
/ˈsɛdjʊləs
/adjective
(Of a person or action) showing dedication and diligence: he watched himself with the most sedulous care...
- The Kirk's most senior staff, such as its principal clerk and its general treasurer (both of them sedulous and diligent men) have no control over these boards and departments.
- There are no tasks which require the conscientious and painstaking effort of sedulous monographers.
- Certainly, no one should think about playing the sedulous ape to him.
Synonyms
diligent, careful, meticulous, thorough, assiduous, attentive, industrious, laborious, hard-working, conscientious, ultra-careful, punctilious, scrupulous, painstaking, searching, close, elaborate, minute, studious, rigorous, particular;
religious, strict;
pedantic, fussy
Derivatives
sedulity
- As nationalist iconographer, Rivera touted progressive agendas he deemed crucial to Mexico's future and linked the nation's twentieth-century wherewithal to the savvy, science, and sedulity of its ‘high’ ancestral civilizations.
sedulously
/ adverb ...- In our accelerated world of time, we seek desperately to harness whatever we can and try even harder to use it sedulously.
- He combined cultural Englishness with political cosmopolitanism, and detested political personality cults while sedulously cultivating a public image of himself.
- Despite the mythology, sedulously disseminated by the complicit Scottish media, there never was a pro-devolution consensus.
sedulousness
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin sedulus 'zealous' + -ous.