Diligently
Diligently adverb - With great effort or determination.
Usage example: working diligently to finish his documentary in time for the film festival
Hardly and diligently are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hardly" instead an adverb "Diligently".
Hardly
Hardly adverb - With great effort or determination.
Usage example: the state championship was a hardly fought contest between two evenly matched teams
Diligently and hardly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Diligently" instead an adverb "Hardly".
Nearby Word: hard
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and diligently
- hard and hardly
- closely and diligently
- closely and hardly
- intensely and diligently
- intensely and hardly
- seriously and diligently
- seriously and hardly
- energetically and diligently
- energetically and hardly
- strenuously and diligently
- strenuously and hardly
- vigorously and diligently
- vigorously and hardly
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