| 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: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person(s) performing service |
Synonyms: |
apprentice, blue collar, breadwinner, employee, hack*, hand*, hard hat, help, helper, hireling, instrument, laborer, learner, operative, prentice, proletariat, rank and file, toiler, work force, worker, working people |
Antonyms: |
management, manager |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childbirth process |
Synonyms: |
birth, birth pangs, childbearing, contractions, delivery, giving birth, pains, parturition, throes, travail |
| Main Entry: | labor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
Synonyms: |
bear down, cultivate, drive, drudge, endeavor, exert oneself, grind, plod, plug away, pour it on, slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, tend, toil, travail, work oneself to the bone |
Antonyms: |
idle, laze, relax |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do something |
Synonyms: |
accomplish, achieve, begin, carry on, carry out, consummate, cook, create, develop, do, do a number, do one's thing, enforce, execute, function, get in there, go about, go for broke, go for it, go in for, go that route, go to town, intrude, knock off, labor, make progress, maneuver, move, officiate, operate, percolate*, perk*, perpetrate, persevere, persist, practice, preside, pursue, respond, serve, take effect, take part, take steps, take up, transort, undertake, work out |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
Antonyms: |
abstain, cease, discontinue, give up, halt, hesitate, idle, refrain, stop |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, sluggishness |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special interest or pursuit |
Synonyms: |
act, avocation, bag*, ballgame, bit*, deed, endeavor, enterprise, entertainment, game, hobby, job, labor, occupation, pastime, project, racket, scene*, scheme, stunt, task, trip, undertaking, venture, work, zoo |
Antonyms: |
hate |
| Main Entry: | agonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suffer or cause another to suffer |
Synonyms: |
afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, sing the blues, squirm, stew over, strain, strive, struggle, take it badly, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe |
Antonyms: |
not worry |
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming alive |
Synonyms: |
act of God, bearing, beginning, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, nascency, natality, nativity, parturition, producing, travail, visit from stork |
Antonyms: |
death |
| Main Entry: | childbirth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving birth |
Synonyms: |
accouchement, bearing children, blessed event, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lying-in, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork |