diligently

English

Specialist worked diligently to restore the antique mirror.

Etymology

Etymology tree

English diligent

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English diligently

From diligent + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒ(ə)ntli/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪləd͡ʒən(t)li/

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Adverb

diligently (comparative more diligently, superlative most diligently)

1. In a diligent manner, with appropriate effort, carefully.
   • 2001 March 25, Eve Schaenen, “Changing Face Of Home”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Instead, empty bags were folded diligently into the corners of underpacked suitcases, waiting to be jammed full with the familiar objects of home.

Translations

in a diligent manner

• Arabic: بِجِدّ (ar) (bi-jidd)
• Catalan: diligentment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 努力 (zh) (nǔlì)

• Finnish: tunnollisesti (fi), huolellisesti (fi)
• French: diligemment (fr)
• Galician: dilixentemente
• German: fleißig (de)
• Hungarian: szorgalmasan (hu)
• Italian: diligentemente (it)
• Japanese: 精を出して (せいをだして, sei o dashite), 勉めて (ja) (つとめて, tsutomete)
• Korean: 열심히 (ko) (yeolsimhi)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: виян (vijan)

• Navajo: wolí bee, tʼóó báhádzigo
• Polish: pilnie (pl)
• Portuguese: diligentemente (pt)
• Russian: усе́рдно (ru) (usérdno), приле́жно (ru) (priléžno), стара́тельно (ru) (starátelʹno)
• Serbo-Croatian: marljivo (sh)
• Slovak: usilovne
• Spanish: diligentemente, con esmero
• Swedish: flitigt (sv)