Meaning and example
marked by care and persistent effort
Her assiduous attempts to learn French
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.887 places assiduous in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 81.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 81.7%
elaborately or excessively ornamented
- Known by
- 81.7%
a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
- Known by
- 81.9%
(Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia
- Known by
- 80.9%
a tapering point
- Known by
- 80.9%
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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