Given to industry; acting or working with diligence; sedulous: as, a person industrious in business.
Marked by industry; done with or characterized by diligence; busily pursued, performed, or employed: as, an industrious life; industrious researches.
Expert; clever; shrewd.
Synonyms Industrious, Industrial; busy, laborious, active, hard-working, sedulous. Industrious, having the activity or the moral quality of industry; industrial, connected with the application of industry to manufactures: as, the industrious ant; industrial statistics.