What is the difference between sedulous and assiduous?
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Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous.
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Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.
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Assiduous is a synonym of sedulous.
As adjectives the difference between sedulous and assiduous
is that sedulous is diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous while assiduous is hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.sedulous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With the right equipment, an indoor grower could create a utopia for his plants, an artificial habitat more perfect than any in nature, [...]. These sedulous attentions would be wasted on male plants, which are worse than useless in sinsemilla production.
- The Scots have always been a fiercely independent people, but it surprised me how far this sedulous process of separation has gone already.
Synonyms
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was officious in the right time and place, quiet as a lamb when his patron seemed inclined to study or to muse, active and assiduous to assist or divert him whenever it seemed to be wished.
- He died after three weeks' illness, during which Mrs. Penniman, as well as his daughter, had been assiduous at his bedside.
- A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections.
Allen Klein, accountant turned manager of the Beatles, dies at 77," The Times (UK), 6 July:
- Klein rose to prominence in the 1960s by assiduous application of accounting methods to the music industry.