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hard-working

hard-working is the alternative form of hardworking.

Meaning of hardworking

Adjective

hardworking (comparative more hardworking, superlative most hardworking)

  1. Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.
    • “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.”2022 June 21, Erin Cooper, “The Washington Post Names MIL a 2022 Top Workplace in the D.C. Area”, in MIL, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2022

Forms of hard-working

comparativemore hard-working
comparativeharder-working
superlativemost hard-working
superlativehardest-working

Questions about hard-working

What is hard-working the alternative form of?
Hard-working is the alternative form of hardworking.

Words near hard-working in the dictionary

  1. hard-wired
  2. hard-wires
  3. hard-wiring
  4. hard-won
  5. hard-work
  6. hard-working
  7. Harda
  8. Hardacre
  9. Hardacres
  10. Hardage
  11. Hardages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard-working (page history and authors); hardworking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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