assiduous

1. 1.

   marked by care and persistent effort

   “her assiduous attempts to learn French”

   “assiduous research”

   “sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles”

   Synonymssedulous

   Similardiligent

Questions about assiduous

What does assiduous mean?

assiduous means "marked by care and persistent effort".

How many syllables are in assiduous?

assiduous has 3 syllables: as-sid-uous. The stress falls on "sid". In IPA it is /əˈsɪdwəs/.

What is another word for assiduous?

Close synonyms include sedulous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is assiduous a common word?

assiduous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.