industriously

1. 1.

   in an industrious manner

   “they hoed up weeds industriously all morning”

Questions about industriously

What does industriously mean?

industriously means "in an industrious manner".

How many syllables are in industriously?

industriously has 5 syllables: in-du-stri-ou-sly. The stress falls on "stri".

Is industriously a common word?

industriously 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.