hard-working
/hˌɑɹdhwˈɝkɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.19 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed."
- "Observation of my elders and betters in other advertising agencies leads me to believe that many of them are more objective, better organized, more vigorous, and harder-working than their opposite numbers in legal practice, teaching, banking, and journalism."
- "‘I could say a million things about you, but the one thing I could never say is that you’re lazy. You’re one of the hardest-working men I’ve ever known.’"
- "One other thing: throughout all this, the railway has remained home for thousands of dedicated, hard-working people. They're out there in all conditions ensuring that 1.7 billion passenger journeys can be made per year."
Inflected Forms
more hard-working (comparative)
harder-working (comparative)
most hard-working (superlative)
hardest-working (superlative)