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assiduate

assiduate adjective: unremitting, requiring a lot of effort.

Adjective

assiduate (comparative more assiduate, superlative most assiduate)

  1. (obsolete) unremitting, requiring a lot of effort
    • […] the queen made assiduate labour for the delivery of the king, her husband, promising he would surrender the whole land into her possession […]1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin Surnamed Ambrosius
  2. (obsolete) assiduous

Forms of assiduate

comparativemore assiduate
superlativemost assiduate

Origin of assiduate

From Latin assiduātus, past participle of assiduō (“to apply constantly”).

Questions about assiduate

What does assiduate mean?
Assiduate means unremitting, requiring a lot of effort.
What part of speech is assiduate?
Assiduate is an adjective.

Words near assiduate in the dictionary

  1. assicons
  2. Assidean
  3. Assideans
  4. assident
  5. assidious
  6. assiduate
  7. assiduities
  8. assiduity
  9. assiduous
  10. assiduously
  11. assiduousness

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