| Main Entry: | exertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
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action, activity, application, attempt, effort, elbow grease, employment, endeavor, exercise, hard pull, industry, labor, long pull, operation, pains, strain, stretch, striving, struggle, toil, travail, trial, trouble, use, utilization |
Antonyms: |
idleness, laziness |
| Concept: | Exertion. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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-nouns
exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress, throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt; stroke of work, stitch of work., "a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together"; dead lift; heft; gymnastics; exercise, exercitation; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble; uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time., labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink, drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; operoseness, operosity., trouble, pains, duty; resolution; energy (physical).
-verbs
exert oneself; exert one's energies, tax one's energies; use exertion., labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar, bestir oneself (be active); take trouble, trouble oneself., work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel (resolution) [more]; work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to (persevere); work one's way, fight one's way; lay about one, hammer at., take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card; put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water (resolution); move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.
-adjectives
laboring; laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric., hardworking, painstaking; strenuous, energetic., hard at work, on the stretch.
-adverbs
laboriously; lustily; pugnis et calcibus; with might and main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with much ado; to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis, manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs, heart and soul; through thick and thin (perseverance)., by the sweat of one's brow, suo Marte.
-phrases
aide-toi le ciel t'aidera; "and still be doing, never done" [Butler]; buen principio la mitad es hecha; cosa ben fatta e' fatta due volie; "it is better to wear out than to rust out" [Bp. Horne]; labor omnia vincit [Vergil]; "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven" [Carlyle]; le travail du corps delivre
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Antonyms: |
repose |
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| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual deed |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, act, blow, commission, dealings, doing, effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork, maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke, thrust, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being active |
Synonyms: |
action, activeness, animation, bustle, enterprise, exercise, exertion, hustle, labor, life, liveliness, motion, movement |
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idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, sluggishness |
| Main Entry: | attempt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | try, effort |
Synonyms: |
all one's got, attack, bid*, crack*, dry run, endeavor, exertion, experiment, fling, go, header, lick*, one's all, one's darnedest, one's level best, pursuit, shot, stab, striving, struggle, trial, try, tryout, undertaking, venture, whack, workout |
Antonyms: |
certainty, laziness, success |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness, attention to detail |
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alertness, caution, circumspection, concentration, concern, conscientiousness, consideration, diligence, direction, discrimination, effort, enthusiasm, exactness, exertion, fastidiousness, forethought, heed, interest, management, meticulousness, nicety, pains, particularity, precaution, prudence, regard, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness |
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carelessness, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight |
| Main Entry: | diligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance in carrying out action |
Synonyms: |
activity, alertness, application, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attentiveness, briskness, care, carefulness, constancy, earnestness, exertion, heed, heedfulness, industry, intensity, intent, intentness, keenness, laboriousness, pertinacity, quickness, sedulousness, vigor |
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inactivity, indifference, laziness, lethargy, neglect |
| Main Entry: | elbow grease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
Synonyms: |
blood sweat and tears, effort, exertion, labor, muscle, oomph, oomph, physical effort, strain, strength, sweat, sweat of one's brow, toil, travail |
| Main Entry: | employment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working for a living; |
Synonyms: |
assignment, avocation, awarding, business, calling, carrying, commissioning, contracting, craft, employ, engagement in activity application, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, exercise, exercising, exertion, field, function, game*, hire, hiring, job, line, mission, métier, number, occupation, occupying, office, position, post, profession, pursuit, racket, recruitment, retaining, service, servicing, setup, signing on, situation, taking on, thing*, trade, using, vocation, what one is into, work |
Antonyms: |
idleness, inactivity, unemployment |
| Main Entry: | employment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | using something |
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adoption, appliance, application, disposition, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, handling, operation, play, purpose, usage, usance, use, utilization |
Antonyms: |
misuse |