industrious

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: According to Lilly, this pale violet star sharpens the understanding, memory, and makes men industrious.

Modifies a noun

• habit: I have known persons of the most industrious habits complain of " the little which they do in a day " .
• man: The deceased was a particulary industrious man, having brought up a large family with scarcely any assistance from the parish.
• poor: The fund provided loans at interest to the industrious poor, who had to provide some form of security for the loan.
• class: But he strongly objected to the transportation of the industrious classes.
• person: She seems to be the most normal one in the family and from all reports is rather a decent and industrious person.
• people: Why not extend the suffrage to the industrious people - the working people.

Modifying Another Word

• very: The farmers here are very industrious - growing crops on every spare piece of land.
• so: I hate killing them - they are so industrious - but their excavations are taking over my garden!
• equally: Turner's prolific research interests made him an equally industrious writer and editor.
• particularly: One thing no one ever called him was lazy, and today's schedule was particularly industrious.
• exceedingly: In climates and regions removed from the tropics only the exceedingly industrious survived.
• immensely: Moreover, 73 several other respondents stressed that Gowan was a highly gifted scientist, scrupulous in his attention to detail and immensely industrious.