mindmap root((忙碌)) busy stresses activity as opposed to idleness or leisure: too ~ to spend time with the children. industrious implies characteristic or habitual devotion to work: a people ~ by nature. diligent suggests earnest application to some specific object or pursuit: very ~ in her pursuit of a degree. assiduous stresses careful and unremitting application: mastered the piano only after ~ practice. sedulous implies painstaking and persevering application: a ~ reconstruction of the events of that night.