Industrious vs Prolific - What's the difference?
industrious | prolific |
Hard-working and persistent; worksome.
Fertile, producing offspring or fruit in abundance — applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
Similarly producing results or works in abundance
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Dominic Fifield
, title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova
, work=The Guardian
As adjectives the difference between industrious and prolific
is that industrious is hard-working and persistent; worksome while prolific is prolific.industrious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* industriousnessExternal links
* * *prolific
English
Alternative forms
* prolifick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.}}