Hardworking

Definition: Hardworking

Hardworking

Adjective

1. Characterized by hard work and perseverance.

Date "hardworking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)

Synonyms: Hardworking

Synonyms: industrious (adj), tireless (adj), untiring (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hardworking

Specialty definitions using "hardworking": Growlers. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	From now on, I'll be a new Barnard Gumbel; Clean, sober, and hardworking. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
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Domain	Title
Books	Blue Collar Food: Easy Home Cooking for Hardworking People by Two Really Nice Guys (reference) Decorating Entrances, Stairways and Landings: Ideas and Inspiration for Hardworking Areas in the Home (reference) Hardworking Bee (reference) Hardworking Man (Silhouette Special Edition No. 9806) (reference) Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, 12) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Hardworking Man Blues (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		With a population of over 2 million, Tijuana is a hardworking industrial community with more than 38 years of experience in international production sharing activities. (references)
Economic History	Turkey	Turkey's labor force has a reputation for being hardworking, productive and dependable. (references)
	Taiwan	In the short term, many forecasters see a pick-up in economic growth in late 2001 or early 2002. At root, Taiwanese are hardworking, resourceful, and entrepreneurial. (references)
Travel	Colombia	They are serious, hardworking, and share many of the same work habits and ethics as business people in the United States. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Hardworking Americans caught in the middle can really use that kind of extra cash.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We are a confident people and a hardworking people, a decent and a compassionate people, and so we will remain.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	New miracles of medicine at last will reach not only those who can claim care now, but the children and hardworking families too long denied.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Hardworking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 56.67% of the time. "Hardworking" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	56.67%	17	85,106
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	10	111,207
Noun (singular)	6.67%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	3.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

Expression using "hardworking": hardworking student. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "hardworking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		arbeidsaam (active). (various references)

Albanian		punëtor (employable, hand, industrious, laborer, laboring, labourer, labouring, machine-minder, man, toiler, worker, working, workman). (various references)

Bulgarian		работен (knockabout, operating, operational, working), трудолюбив (industrious, laborious, plodding). (various references)

Chinese		辛勤 (industrious), 勤勞 (diligent, industrious), 勤勉 (Assiduous), 刻苦 (assiduous). (various references)

Czech		pracovitý (diligent, industrious), přièinlivý (diligent, painstaking, studious). (various references)

Danish		flittig (diligent, industrious). (various references)

Dutch		naarstig (diligent, industrious). (various references)

Esperanto		laborema, diligenta (diligent, industrious). (various references)

Faeroese		hugagóður (diligent, industrious), arbeiðssamur (active), íðin (diligent, full of zeal, industrious, zealous). (various references)

Farsi		پرکار (Overwrought, Prolific), زحمت کش (Durdge, Laborious, Painstaking). (various references)

Finnish		ahkera (busy, diligent, hard-working, industrious, studious). (various references)

French		assidu (hard). (various references)

Frisian		warber (active, in action), krigel (active). (various references)

German		strebsam (assiduous, diligent, industrious, striving), geschäftig (active, assiduous, bustling, busy, industrious, zealous), geflissentlich (deliberate, diligent, industrious, intentional), fleißig (assiduous, diligent, diligently, hard working, industrious, keen, painstaking, studious, studiously), emsig (assiduous, bustling, busy, diligent, eager, industrious, keen, sedulous, zealous, zealously), beflissen (diligent, industrious, obsequious, studious, zealous), arbeitsam (active, hard working, industrious, laborious, plodding). (various references)

Hungarian		szorgalmas (assiduous, busy, diligent, hard working, hard-working, industrious, laborious, sedulous, studious). (various references)

Indonesian		getol (diligent, industrious). (various references)

Italian		laborioso (active, hard working, industrious, labored, laborious, laboured, toilsome, working), attivo (active, active voice, alive, assets, brisk, busy, in action, industrious, instrumental, lively, practicing, practising, spry, strenuous, working). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� 実 (devoted, faithful, faithfulness, fidelity, healthy, honest). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まめ (beans, blister, clitoris, corn, devoted, faithful, healthy, honest, peas). (various references)

Korean		근면한 (Assiduous, Diligent, Painstaking). (various references)

Malay		giat (diligent, industrious). (various references)

Papiamen		brio (brave, courage, courageous, diligent, energetic, industrious, valiant, vigorous). (various references)

Pig Latin		ardworkinghay.(various references)

Polish		pracowity (active), pilny (diligent, industrious). (various references)

Portuguese		aplicado (applied, assiduous, diligent, engineering, industrious, industriously, intent, painstaking, sedulous, studious). (various references)

Romanian		harnic (active, busily, busy, diligent, diligently, hard working, industrious, industriously, light footed, living, operose, sedulous, spry, toilsome). (various references)

Russian		трудолюбивый (hard-working, industrious, plodding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vredan (diligent, industrious, valuable, worthy), marljiv (assiduous, diligent, hard, hard working, industrious, sedulous). (various references)

Spanish		laborioso (active, heavy, industrious, labor intensive, laborious, labour intensive, plodding, ponderous, toilful, toilsome), activo (abuzz, active, active voice, alert, alive, asset, assets, bouncy, brisk, bustling, deedful, enabled, humming, in action, N 10, radioactive, resources, spry, tangible, transitive, U10, up and doing). (various references)

Swedish		arbetsam (diligent, industrious, laborious). (various references)

Tagalog		masípag (diligent, industrious). (various references)

Turkish		gayretli (arduous, as keen as mustard, assiduous, diligent, eager, fervent, full of pep, full of vim, industrious, persevering, sedulous, strenuous, studious, vigorous, zealous), ateş gibi (fiery, igneous, very hot), çok çalışan (labored, laborious, laboured), çalixkan (diligent, industrious), çalışkan (active, arduous, assiduous, diligent, earnest, energetic, full of action, industrious, labored, laborious, laboured, sedulous, strenuous, studious). (various references)

Turkmen		jepakeю, janypkeю (dedicated, industrious), iюleссir, iюeссir. (various references)

Yucatec		seeb u meyah (diligent, industrious), aalkab u man meyah (diligent, industrious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hardworking" (pronounced hÄ"rdwer'king)
6	-d w er' k i ng	woodworking.
5	-w er' k i ng	metalworking, networking.
3	-k i ng	aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-i-k-n-o-r-r-w"
	-2 letters: handiwork, harrowing.
	-3 letters: arrowing, hairwork, handwork, hoarding.
	-4 letters: adoring, darking, dorhawk, drawing, harking, hawking, hording, howking, roaring, warding, warking, warring, whoring, wording, working.
	-5 letters: daikon, daring, dawing, dowing, dragon, ganoid, garron, gharri, gradin, hading, hadron, hagdon, hairdo, haring, harrow, hawing, hoking, horrid, inroad, inward, narrow, oaring, onagri, onward, ordain, origan, raking, raring, rowing, wading, waking, waring.
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