assiduously

1. 1.

   with care and persistence

   “she worked assiduously on the senior thesis”

Questions about assiduously

What does assiduously mean?

assiduously means "with care and persistence".

How many syllables are in assiduously?

assiduously has 4 syllables: as-sid-uou-sly. The stress falls on "sid". In IPA it is /əˈsɪdwəsli/.

Is assiduously a common word?

assiduously 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.