| Main Entry: | drudgery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard, tedious work |
Synonyms: |
backbreaker, chore, daily grind, elbow grease, grind*, gruntwork, labor, menial labor, rat race, slavery, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, workout |
Antonyms: |
snap |
| Main Entry: | grind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tedious job |
Synonyms: |
chore, drudgery, groove*, grubwork, hard work, labor, moil, pace, rote, routine, rut, sweat*, task, toil, travail, treadmill |
| Main Entry: | hardship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal burden |
Synonyms: |
Herculean task, accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, rotten luck, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, tough break, tough luck, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, uphill battle, vicissitude, want, worry |
Antonyms: |
advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, undertaking |
Synonyms: |
activity, chore, daily grind, diligence, drudgery, effort, employment, endeavor, energy, exercise, exertion, grind*, gruntwork, industry, job, moonlight, operation, pains, pull, push, strain, stress, struggle, sweat, toil, travail |
Antonyms: |
entertainment, fun |
| Main Entry: | slavery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of working under duress or without freedom |
Synonyms: |
bondage, bullwork, captivity, chains constraint, drudge, drudgery, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, grind, helotry, indenture, labor, menial labor, moil, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servitude, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, toil, vassalage, work |
Antonyms: |
mastery |
| Main Entry: | sweat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
Synonyms: |
backbreaker, chore, drudgery, effort, grind, labor, moil, slavery, task, toil, travail, work |
Antonyms: |
entertainment, recreation |
| Main Entry: | toil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
Synonyms: |
application, drudgery, effort, exertion, industry, labor, moil, nine-to-five, occupation, pains, sweat, travail |
Antonyms: |
entertainment, fun, pastime |
| Main Entry: | work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | labor, chore |
Synonyms: |
assignment, attempt, commission, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, exertion, functioning, grind, grindstone, industry, job, moil, muscle, obligation, pains, performance, production, push, salt mines, servitude, slogging, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat*, task, toil, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking |
Antonyms: |
entertainment, fun, pastime |
| Main Entry: | hard work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficult labor |
Synonyms: |
backbreaking work, donkeywork, drudgery, hard way, labor, long haul, tough grind, uphill battle |
| Main Entry: | travail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | struggle |
Synonyms: |
agony, anguish, childbirth, distress, drudgery, effort, exertion, labor, pains, pangs, parturition, stress, suffering, toil, tribulation, woe, work |