Synonyms for Industrious:

• adj.

  •active (adjective)
  • quick,
  • perky,
  • sprightly,
  • animated,
  • forcible,
  • quickest,
  • fireball,
  • bustling,
  • on the move,
  • moving,
  • hyper,
  • dynamic,
  • spirited,
  • stirring,
  • vivacious,
  • eager.
  •ambitious (adjective)
  • ball of fire,
  • goal-oriented,
  • strenuous,
  • inspired,
  • pretentious,
  • impressive,
  • High-reaching,
  • power-loving,
  • severe,
  • bent upon,
  • get up and go,
  • hard ball,
  • come on strong,
  • thirsty,
  • visionary,
  • grandiose,
  • lofty,
  • loftier,
  • go getter,
  • self-starting.
  •assiduous (adjective)
  • un flagging,
  • steady,
  • more plugging,
  • most plugging,
  • un-tiring,
  • un-flagging,
  • un tiring.
  •businesslike (adjective)
  • disciplined,
  • well-ordered,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • workaday,
  • matter of fact.
  •busy (adjective)
  • in else's possession,
  • in the laboratory,
  • having enough on one plate,
  • having enough ones plate,
  • having fish to fry,
  • in meeting,
  • having full plate,
  • having many irons in fire,
  • up to one ears,
  • most snowed,
  • having many irons the fire,
  • in field,
  • having enough one's plate,
  • more slaving,
  • in someone else possession,
  • in laboratory,
  • up ears,
  • most overloaded,
  • with a customer,
  • with customer,
  • un-available,
  • up one's ears,
  • in someone elses possession,
  • up to ears,
  • over loaded,
  • up ones ears,
  • most slaving,
  • more swamped,
  • most swamped,
  • in elses possession,
  • more snowed,
  • up one ears,
  • having enough plate,
  • on go,
  • having enough one plate,
  • having a full plate,
  • having fish fry,
  • having many irons fire,
  • over-loaded,
  • un available,
  • in else possession,
  • having enough on plate,
  • more overloaded,
  • up to ones ears,
  • having enough on ones plate.
  •diligent (adjective)
  • more diligent,
  • un-relenting,
  • steadfast,
  • persistent,
  • un relenting,
  • more persisting,
  • grindest,
  • most persisting.
  •earnest (adjective)
  • de-voted,
  • most perseverant,
  • vehement,
  • more perseverant,
  • de voted,
  • most fervid.
  •energetic (adjective)
  • stalwart,
  • highpowered,
  • hardy,
  • demoniac,
  • red-blooded,
  • kinetic.
  •engrossed (adjective)
  • more in to,
  • most gripped,
  • caught in,
  • in to,
  • heavily in to,
  • most into,
  • sub-merged,
  • really in to,
  • more captivated,
  • most monopolized,
  • more submerged,
  • most submerged,
  • most captivated,
  • more consumed,
  • more monopolized,
  • most bugged,
  • most enthralled,
  • most in to,
  • most consumed,
  • taken with,
  • more enthralled,
  • more gripped,
  • most riveted,
  • more riveted,
  • sub merged,
  • wrapped up,
  • up here in,
  • more into,
  • more bugged.
  •enterprising (adjective)
  • more itching,
  • most advancing,
  • more gumptious,
  • coming strong,
  • GOGO,
  • most gumptious,
  • most go-go,
  • go go,
  • most takeover,
  • more lusting,
  • most gogo,
  • up and coming,
  • most take over,
  • most itching,
  • most yearning,
  • more advancing,
  • goahead,
  • most go go,
  • more takeover,
  • up-and-coming,
  • more take over,
  • more go-go,
  • more take-over,
  • most take-over,
  • more go go,
  • most craving,
  • more gogo,
  • take-over,
  • more yearning,
  • most lusting,
  • more craving.
  •hardworking (adjective)
  • in full swing,
  • laborious,
  • psyched up on,
  • Operose,
  • burning,
  • jumping,
  • purposeful,
  • zealous,
  • persevering,
  • involved,
  • Plugging,
  • grind.
  •indefatigable (adjective)
  • un wearying,
  • un-remitting,
  • nose grindstone,
  • hell bent,
  • more unwearying,
  • bound determined,
  • un-faltering,
  • in-exhaustible,
  • most unwearying,
  • un-flinching,
  • un-wearying,
  • un flinching,
  • un-wavering,
  • stop at nothing,
  • stop nothing,
  • hell-bent,
  • in exhaustible,
  • un faltering,
  • un wavering,
  • un remitting.
  •intent (adjective)
  • in tent,
  • more resolved,
  • most resolved,
  • most concentrating,
  • pre-occupied,
  • more minding,
  • pre occupied,
  • more concentrating,
  • re-solved,
  • in-tent,
  • most minding.
  •lively (adjective)
  • chirpier,
  • chirpy,
  • chirpiest,
  • full of pep.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • sedulous,
  • fiend for,
  • in the field,
  • at it,
  • busy,
  • having many irons in the fire,
  • diligent,
  • up to one's ears,
  • grinder,
  • active,
  • on the go,
  • already taken,
  • all wound up,
  • gumptious,
  • having enough on one's plate,
  • hellbent,
  • tireless,
  • lively,
  • heavily into,
  • Weariless,
  • take over,
  • earnest,
  • Perseverant,
  • go-go,
  • nose to grindstone,
  • dead set on,
  • assiduous,
  • really into,
  • in someone else's possession,
  • taken up with,
  • coming on strong,
  • energetic,
  • on assignment,
  • unwearying,
  • ambitious,
  • intent,
  • caught up,
  • Riveted,
  • enterprising,
  • in a meeting,
  • in conference,
  • up to here in,
  • engrossed,
  • businesslike,
  • studious,
  • painstaking,
  • unwearied,
  • Snowed.
  •painstaking (adjective)
  • by the book,
  • conscionable,
  • most stickler,
  • by book,
  • ex-act,
  • more conscionable,
  • ex act,
  • more fussbudget,
  • most conscionable,
  • more stickler,
  • by numbers,
  • fussbudget,
  • most fussbudget.
  •rousing (adjective)
  • rousing.
  •studious (adjective)
  • well-informed.
  •unwearied (adjective)
  • un-failing,
  • un failing,
  • un wearied,
  • un-wearied.
  •vigorous (adjective)
  • fiery,
  • strong,
  • ardent,
  • ablaze,
  • puissant,
  • agitated,
  • full-blooded,
  • emphatic,
  • passionate,
  • exuberant,
  • zippy,
  • zestful,
  • lusty,
  • peppy,
  • mettlesome,
  • vigorous,
  • potent,
  • frisky,
  • impassioned,
  • fervent,
  • powerful,
  • virile,
  • prolific,
  • excited,
  • hearty,
  • enthusiastic,
  • afire.

• n.

  •
  • efficient,
  • committed,
  • conscientious,
  • productive.
  •
  • idle,
  • sluggish,
  • fiddle,
  • industry,
  • goof,
  • slouch.
  •assiduous (noun)
  • study at diligent.
  •hardworking (noun)
  • hardworking.
  •industrious (noun)
  • untiring.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • characteristic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • shiftlessness,
  • bookish,
  • slothfulness,
  • sedulousness,
  • sluggardness,
  • hard-working,
  • assiduity,
  • goldbrick,
  • assiduousness,
  • laze,
  • layabout,
  • sluggard,
  • Do-little,
  • Do-nothingism,
  • lazybones,
  • industriousness,
  • slugabed.
  •
  • shirk,
  • lounge,
  • idleness,
  • drone,
  • dawdle,
  • loiter,
  • productivity,
  • bum,
  • sluggishness,
  • efficiency.
  •
  • while.
  •
  • loaf.
  •
  • waste.
  •
  • application.
  •Other relevant words:
  • self-made.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • invincible,
  • punctilious,
  • sleepless,
  • scholarly,
  • permanent,
  • courageous,
  • do-nothing,
  • smart,
  • apt,
  • concentrated,
  • stubborn,
  • keen,
  • stable,
  • willing,
  • rapt,
  • devoted,
  • spry,
  • resolved,
  • fraught,
  • brave,
  • docile,
  • meticulous,
  • go ahead,
  • constant,
  • expeditious,
  • unconquerable,
  • aggressive,
  • operative,
  • venturesome,
  • relentless,
  • loafer,
  • slogging,
  • avid,
  • mobile,
  • unwavering,
  • attentive,
  • daring,
  • hectic,
  • in action,
  • Hustling,
  • indolence,
  • resolute,
  • unfaltering,
  • undaunted,
  • pertinacious,
  • Unrelaxing,
  • live,
  • unabating,
  • restless,
  • patient,
  • unswerving,
  • dogged,
  • intense,
  • determined,
  • unrelenting,
  • working,
  • unsleeping,
  • resourceful,
  • lasting,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • idler,
  • immutable,
  • unsparing,
  • staunch,
  • unremitting,
  • purposive,
  • undiscouraged,
  • Energetical,
  • single-minded,
  • notable,
  • unfailing,
  • scrupulous,
  • inalterable,
  • uninterrupted,
  • prompt,
  • adventurous,
  • bold,
  • persisting,
  • tenacious,
  • focused,
  • attention,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • unstinting,
  • fervid,
  • never-tiring,
  • elaborate,
  • unflinching,
  • plodding,
  • unflagging,
  • occupied,
  • diligence,
  • obdurate,
  • insistent,
  • engaged,
  • loyal,
  • preoccupied,
  • thorough,
  • teachable,
  • shiftless,
  • tied up,
  • hard,
  • scholastic,
  • pushy,
  • Overworked,
  • faithful,
  • indomitable,
  • Unintermitting,
  • enduring,
  • continuing,
  • careful,
  • Undrooping,
  • obstinate,
  • undeviating,
  • vital,
  • indefatigable,
  • audacious.

Paraphrases for Industrious:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    hardworking, hard-working.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    arduous, hard, time-consuming.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    laborious, cumbersome.

Antonyms for Industrious:

• adj.

  • hardworking
    lackadaisical, lethargic, inactive, idle, indolent, unemployed, lazy, slack, unproductive.
  • Other antonyms:
    negligent, asleep, vacant, nonoperating, lifeless, quiescent, slow, passive, nonenterprising, sluggish, heavy, quiet, free, trifling, unenterprising.