Sedulous Meaning and Usage

Sedulous:
adjective

- Involving or accomplished with careful perseverance
- Diligent in application or pursuit
- Persevering and constant in effort or application; assiduous


Some forms:
sedulously - Adverb
sedulousness - Noun
sedulity - Noun


Let’s look at some examples:
1. The sedulous craftsmanship was evident in the intricately carved cabinet, and in all of its finely-fitted drawers.
Adjective : meticulous, diligent

2. She was known to her teachers as a quiet and sedulous girl.
3. Daphne was a sedulous student whose hard work and determination earned her a number of college scholarships.
4. Sedulous study brought the happy benefit of acceptance to graduate school.
5. If you will do all your homework sedulously this week, I will let you help me rake up the leaves this weekend.
6. Mack was sedulous in his studies of Elizabethan poetry.
Adjective : diligent, studious, attentive


7. A sedulous young man, he was distraught at having missed the deadline.
8. The sedulous landscapper refused to leave until his work was done, even though it was raining heavily.
9. If Clarence were as sedulous in weeding his garden all summer as he is in planting it in the spring, we would have more fresh vegetables—and he would be carrying less weight around.
Adjective : diligent, industrious, thorough


10. Jeannie was sedulous in making sure that she got the best interest rate available.
Adjective: careful, scrupulous.
[Observe the usage in the above sentence. Here, along with the hard-work, the use of intellect is also suggested. Maybe a slight tinge of cunning too...?]


Synonyms: assiduous, diligent, industrious, studious, careful, meticulous, thorough, attentive, laborious, conscientious, punctilious, scrupulous, rigorous, religious, strict, pedantic

Antonyms: nonchalant


Etymology: "sedulous" ultimately comes from the Latin "se dolus," which literally means "without guile." Those two words were eventually melded into one, "sedulo," meaning "sincerely" or "diligently," and from that root developed the Latin "sedulus" and the English "sedulous." Don't let the "sed-" beginning mislead you; "sedulous" is not related to words such as "sedentary" or "sedate" (which derive from the Latin verb "sedœre," meaning "to sit").