hardworking

UK/ˈhɑːɹdˌwɜːɹ.kɪŋ/US/ˈhɑːɹdˌwɜːɹ.kɪŋ/

adjectiveB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,846 of 15,258leans spoken

Hardworking means putting steady effort into everything. A hardworking student, hardworking families, honest and hardworking.

It praises consistency rather than brilliance, which is why it is the safest thing to say in a reference and the least informative. Hardworking families is a political formula worn smooth by repetition. Note that it is usually written as one word, sometimes hyphenated, and that the compound is straightforwardly hard plus working.

Definitions of hardworking

1adjectivehardworkingPutting steady effort into everything.B1+
“She's a hardworking student who does her homework every night without being asked.”
synonyms: diligent, industrious

hardworking is a quality of effort.

Also accepted in games: hard-working

Where it comes from

From hard + working.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Everyday Adjectives

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hardworking in the wild

While Ti Malice is smart and guileful, Uncle Bouki is hardworking but is also very greedy.
Ti Malice and Bouki
Described as "hardworking", she is heavily protective over her family and makes enemies such as Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard) and Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner).
Rosie Miller
The people of this small town are hardworking, and the main source of income is farming.
Kalabat
Known as the paddy field of Onnatukara, Clappana was a land of vast agricultural lands and hardworking people.
Clappana
The folk music invokes the traditions as well as the hardworking nature, bravery and many more things that the people of Punjab get from its gateway-to-India geographical location.
Folk music of Punjab

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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