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| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
| Synonyms: | bear down, cultivate, drive, drudge, endeavor, grind, plod, slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, tend, toil, travail, exert oneself, plug away, pour it on, work oneself to the bone |
| Antonyms: | idle, relax, laze |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, undertaking |
| Synonyms: | activity, chore, daily grind, diligence, drudgery, effort, employment, endeavor, energy, exercise, exertion, grind*, industry, job, moonlight, operation, pull, push, strain, stress, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, gruntwork, pains |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person(s) performing service |
| Synonyms: | apprentice, breadwinner, employee, hack*, hand*, hard hat, help, helper, hireling, instrument, laborer, learner, operative, proletariat, rank and file*, toiler, work force, worker, blue collar, prentice, working people |
| Antonyms: | management, manager |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childbirth process |
| Synonyms: | birth, delivery, parturition, travail, birth pangs, childbearing, contractions, giving birth, pains, throes |
| Main Entry: | agonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffer or cause another to suffer |
| Synonyms: | afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, squirm, strain, strive, struggle, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, sing the blues, stew over, take it badly |
| Antonyms: | not worry |
| Main Entry: | childbirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving birth |
| Synonyms: | blessed event*, confinement, delivery, labor, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, accouchement, bearing children, childbed, delivering, lying-in, nativity, parturience, visit from the stork |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drudge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
| Synonyms: | dig, grind*, hammer*, labor, muck*, perform, plod, plow, pound*, schlepp*, slave, slog, sweat, toil, travail, back to the salt mines, keep nose to grindstone, plug away |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge, hesitate, idle, be lazy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drudgery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard, tedious work |
| Synonyms: | chore, daily grind, elbow grease*, grind*, labor, rat race, slavery, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, workout, backbreaker, gruntwork, menial labor |
| Antonyms: | snap |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | effort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work, exertion |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, aim, application, aspiration, attempt, battle, crack*, creation, deed, discipline, drill, elbow grease*, endeavor, energy, enterprise, essay, exercise, feat, fling*, force, go*, industry, intention, job, labor, old college try*, power, product, production, pull, purpose, push, resolution, shot*, spurt, stab*, strain, stress, stretch, strife, striving, struggle, sweat, tension, toil, training, travail, trial, trouble, try, tug*, undertaking, venture, whack*, pains |
| Antonyms: | hesitation, idleness, laziness, inactivity, passivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | endeavor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attempt to achieve something |
| Synonyms: | aim, all*, best shot*, crash project, dry run*, effort, enterprise, essay, exertion, fling, full blast*, full court press, full steam, go, header, labor, lick*, old college try*, one's all, one's level best, push, shot*, stab*, striving, struggle, toil, travail, trial, try, try-on, undertaking, venture, whack*, whirl*, work |
| Notes: | an endeavor is a purposeful or industrious undertaking that requires effort; try is an attempt or effort |
| Antonyms: | idleness, laziness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | endeavor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt to achieve something |
| Synonyms: | address, aim, apply, aspire, assay, bid for, buck, determine, dig, do one's best, drive at, essay, go for broke, go for*, grind, hammer away, hassle, have a crack, have a shot at, have a swing at, hump*, hustle, intend, labor, make a run at, make an effort, offer, peg away, plug, pour it on, purpose, push, risk, scratch, seek, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, take on, take pains, try, undertake, venture |
| Antonyms: | be idle, ignore, laze, procrastinate, put off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | essay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try, attempt |
| Synonyms: | aim, assay, endeavor, labor, offer, seek, strive, struggle, take on, test, toil, travail, undertake, venture, work, have a crack, have a go, have a shot, have at it, make a run at, put to the test, take a stab at, take a whack at, try out |
| Antonyms: | forget, neglect, pass, be idle |
| Main Entry: | exert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make use of |
| Synonyms: | apply, apply oneself, bring into play*, bring to bear*, dig*, employ, endeavor, exercise, expend, give all one's got, give best shot, labor, make effort, peg away, plug*, ply, pour it on, push, put forth, put out, strain, strive, struggle, sweat it, throw, toil, try hard, use, utilize, wield, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, application, attempt, effort, elbow grease*, employment, endeavor, exercise, industry, labor, operation, strain, stretch, striving, struggle, toil, travail, trial, trouble, use, hard pull, long pull, pains, utilization |
| Antonyms: | idleness, laziness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flounder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | struggle; be in the dark |
| Synonyms: | blunder, bobble, cast about, come apart at the seams, drop the ball, fall down, flop, flummox, foul up*, fumble, go at backwards, go to pieces*, grope, labor, lurch, make a mess of, miss one's cue, muddle, plunge, pratfall, screw up*, slip up*, snafu*, strive, stub one's toe, stumble, thrash, toil, toss, travail, trip up*, tumble, wallow, work at |
| Antonyms: | do well, succeed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tedious job |
| Synonyms: | chore, drudgery, groove*, hard work, labor, pace, rote, routine, rut*, sweat*, task, toil, travail, grubwork, moil, treadmill |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hardship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal burden |
| Synonyms: | 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, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, vicissitude, want, worry, Herculean task, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle |
| Antonyms: | advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | keep at |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue, endure |
| Synonyms: | carry on, complete, drudge, finish, grind, labor, last, maintain, persevere, persist, remain, slave, stay, stick, toil, be steadfast |
| Antonyms: | discontinue, give in, give up |
| Main Entry: | slavery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of working under duress or without freedom |
| Synonyms: | bondage, captivity, drudge, drudgery, enslavement, grind, indenture, labor, restraint, servitude, thrall, toil, work, bullwork, chains constraint*, enthrallment, feudalism, helotry, menial labor, moil, peonage, serfdom, serfhood, subjection, subjugation, thralldom, vassalage |
| Antonyms: | mastery |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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