Reverse Dictionary: INDUSTRIOUS

ADJECTIVES
​► AMBITIOUS energetic, lively, industrious → 1889 Amer. dial.
► BRICKLE eager, keen, industrious, ambitious → 1902 Amer. dial.
► BUSY AS A BEE very busy or industrious; fully engaged with some occupation → c1405
► CLIFTY smart, busy, industriously active → 1892 Eng. dial.
► CRACKERJACK excellent; industrious → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► EIDENT diligent, industrious, busy, attentive to; hard-working → 1591 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► ENDEAVOURING industrious, hard-working → 1868 Eng. dial.
► LEETHFUL diligent, industrious, persevering → 1877 Sc.
► NATTY handy, deft; industrious; clever, ingenious → 1888 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► OPEROSE of a person: laborious; industrious, busy → 1670
► OPEROUS made or done with much labour or effort; laborious, industrious, busy; painstaking, tedious; toilsome; elaborate → a1538 obs.
► SHIFTY alert; busy; industrious and successful → 1912 Amer. dial.
► SMART energetic and effective in working; industrious, diligent → 1859 Amer. dial. esp. African-American
► SWINKFUL hard-working, industrious, diligent → a1000 obs.
► TEWING hard-working, industrious, energetic → 1729 Eng. dial.
► TEWSOME hard-working, industrious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VERTIE careful, cautious, prudent; industrious, wide-awake, eager; attentive to business → 1804 Sc. obs.
► VIRTUOUS thrifty, industrious → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► WORK-BRITTLE eager to work, earnest or intent on work, industrious, energetic → 1647 Eng. & Amer. dial.

ADVERBS
► EIDENTLY diligently, industriously, attentively → 1838 Sc.
► HARDFULLY industriously → 1877 Eng. dial.
► LIKE KILLING BLACK SNAKES very industriously, intensively → 1906 Amer. dial.
► LIKE KILLING SNAKES very industriously, intensively → 1956 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► EIDENCE industry, diligence → 1897 Sc.
► NEGOTIOUSNESS busyness; want of leisure; diligence, industriousness → 1642 obs.
► OPEROSITY a being industrious or busy → 1615

NOUNS – PERSON
► BANE an industrious, diligent, persevering man → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CLINKER an industrious or diligent person → 1905 Amer. dial.
► EMMET an industrious person → 1904 Amer. dial.
► ENERGIZER BUNNY an extremely determined, persistent, and industrious person → 2009 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SCART a saving, industrious person; a niggard; a villain; a fool → 1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRAT a saving, industrious person; a mean, niggardly, contemptible fellow;  a miser → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TEWER a hard worker; an industrious, energetic person → 1878 Eng. dial.
► WORK-BRITTLE an energetic or industrious person → 1912 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► INDUSTHER to work hard; to be industrious → 1880 N. Ireland
► SCART to lead a laborious, industrious life → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCRAFFLE to work hard with small success; to struggle for a living; to be industrious → 1856 Eng. dial.