hardworking

See also: hard-working

English

Alternative forms

• hard-working

Etymology

From hard +‎ working.

Adjective

hardworking (comparative more hardworking, superlative most hardworking)

1. Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:industrious

   • 2022 June 21, Erin Cooper, “The Washington Post Names MIL a 2022 Top Workplace in the D.C. Area”, in MIL‎^[1]:

     “My team and manager are exceptional; they are hardworking, talented, and supportive,” noted one respondent. “The company as a whole really focuses on their employees and that is very important to me.”

   • 2024 August 20, Megan McArdle, “Why Harris’s housing plan won’t work”, in The Washington Post‎^[2]:

     It exacerbates homelessness, slows family formation, prevents workers from moving to opportunity and puts an enormous strain on the budgets of hardworking people.

Usage notes

See hard-working for alternative comparative and superlative.

Translations

taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly — see also industrious

• Arabic: مُجْتَهِد (ar) (mujtahid)
• Asturian: trabayador
• Azerbaijani: çalışqan (az), əməksevər, zəhmətkeş, işcil, zəhmətsevən, işgüzar
• Bashkir: эшсән (eşsən), егәрле (yegərle)
• Belarusian: працаві́ты (pracavíty), стара́нны (be) (staránny), руплі́вы (ruplívy), пі́льны (pílʹny)
• Bulgarian: трудолюби́в (bg) (trudoljubív), усъ́рден (bg) (usǎ́rden)
• Catalan: treballador (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 勤力 (yue) (kan⁴ lik⁶), 勤勉 (kan⁴ min⁵), 勤勞／勤劳 (kan⁴ lou⁴), 勤奮／勤奋 (kan⁴ fan⁵), 耐勞／耐劳 (noi⁶ lou⁴), 刻苦 (hak¹ fu²), 努力 (nou⁵ lik⁶), 勤苦 (kan⁴ fu²), 用功 (jung⁶ gung¹)

  Hakka: 煞猛 (sat-mâng), 勤勞／勤劳 (khiùn-lò), 用功 (yung-kûng), 努力 (nú-li̍t), 打拚 (tá-piang)

  Hokkien: 骨力 (kut-la̍t), 勤勉 (khîn-bián, khûn-bián), 勤奮／勤奋 (khîn-hùn, khûn-hùn), 刻苦 (khek-khó͘), 努力 (zh-min-nan) (ló͘-le̍k), 拍拚 (zh-min-nan) (phah-piàⁿ), 勤苦 (khîn-khó͘, khûn-khó͘)

  Mandarin: 勤勉 (zh) (qínmiǎn), 勤 (zh) (qín), 勤勞／勤劳 (zh) (qínláo), 勤奮／勤奋 (zh) (qínfèn), 耐勞／耐劳 (zh) (nàiláo), 刻苦 (zh) (kèkǔ), 努力 (zh) (nǔlì), 勤苦 (zh) (qínkǔ), 用功 (zh) (yònggōng)

• Czech: pilný (cs)
• Danish: hårdtarbejdende, flittig, arbejdsom
• Dutch: ijverig (nl), vlijtig (nl)
• Esperanto: laborema
• Finnish: ahkera (fi)
• French: industrieux (fr), diligent (fr), travailleur (fr)
• Galician: traballador (gl), dilixente
• Georgian: შრომისმოყვარე (šromismoq̇vare), მშრომელი (mšromeli)
• German: fleißig (de), arbeitsam (de), eifrig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: πολύεργος (polúergos)

• Hebrew: חָרוּץ (he) (kharúsh)
• Hindi: मेहनती (hi) (mehnatī)
• Hungarian: szorgalmas (hu), szorgos (hu), dolgos (hu)
• Ingrian: töökäs
• Irish: saothrach
• Japanese: 勤勉 (ja) (きんべん, kinben)
• Khmer: លំអោត (lumʼaot), ស្រវាស្រទេញ (km) (srɑvaa srɑtɨñ), ឱហាត (km) (ʼaohaat)
• Korean: 근면하다 (ko) (geunmyeonhada)
• Latin: labōrifer
• Latvian: strādīgs, centīgs, cītīgs, uzcītīgs, čakls
• Macedonian: усрден (usrden), трудољубив (trudoljubiv)
• Malayalam: കഠിനാദ്ധ്വാനി (kaṭhināddhvāni)
• Manx: sheer-obbragh
• Maori: tōhaunui
• Persian: سخت‌کوش (saxt-kuš)
• Polish: pracowity (pl), pilny (pl)
• Portuguese: trabalhador (pt), diligente (pt)
• Romanian: harnic (ro), sârguincios (ro), muncitor (ro), laborios (ro), diligent (ro)
• Russian: приле́жный (ru) (priléžnyj), усе́рдный (ru) (usérdnyj), трудолюби́вый (ru) (trudoljubívyj), работя́щий (ru) (rabotjáščij), рачи́тельный (ru) (račítelʹnyj) (dated)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèanadach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трудољубив, марљив

  Roman: trudoljubiv, marljiv (sh)

• Slovak: pracovitý
• Slovene: marljiv
• Spanish: trabajador (es), esforzado (es)
• Swedish: idog (sv), flitig (sv), arbetsam (sv)
• Thai: ขยัน (th) (kà-yǎn)
• Turkish: çalışkan (tr)
• Turkmen: işjeň
• Ukrainian: працьови́тий (pracʹovýtyj), роботя́щий (robotjáščyj), стара́нний (staránnyj), рете́льний (retélʹnyj)
• Urdu: میہنتی (mehnatī)
• Vietnamese: chăm chỉ (vi)