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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

active, ardent, assiduous, busy, constant, continuing, diligent, dogged, elaborate, enduring, energetic, faithful, fervent, hard, hardworking, hustling, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, invincible, laborious, lasting, loyal, never idle, never-tiring, obstinate, operose, painstaking, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, resolute, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady, strenuous, stubborn, tenacious, thorough, thoroughgoing, tireless, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vehement, weariless, zealous

Dictionary Results for sedulous:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sedulous
    adj 1: marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous
           attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research";
           "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles" [syn:
           assiduous, sedulous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sedulous \Sed"u*lous\ (?; 135), a. [L. sedulus, perhaps from
   sedere to sit, and so akin to E. sit.]
   Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and
   persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object;
   steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.
   [1913 Webster]

         What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without
         the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application
         of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such
         an end?                                  --L'Estrange.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Assiduous; diligent; industrious; laborious;
        unremitting; untiring; unwearied; persevering.
        [1913 Webster] -- Sed"u*lous*ly, adv. --
        Sed"u*lous*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

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