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| Main Entry: | ado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fuss |
| Synonyms: | bother, confusion, excitement, flurry, hubbub, to-do*, travail, trouble, turmoil |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | toil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard work |
| Synonyms: | application, drudgery, effort, exertion, industry, labor, occupation, sweat, travail, moil, nine-to-five, pains |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming alive |
| Synonyms: | act of God, bearing, beginning, blessed event*, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, parturition, producing, travail, birthing, childbearing, nascency, natality, nativity, visit from stork |
| Antonyms: | death |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | work |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | labor, chore |
| Synonyms: | assignment, attempt, commission, daily grind, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease*, endeavor, exertion, grind, industry, job, muscle, obligation, performance, production, push, servitude, stint, stress, striving, struggle, sweat*, task, toil, travail, trial, trouble, undertaking, functioning, grindstone, moil, pains, salt mines, slogging |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | essay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | try, attempt |
| Synonyms: | aim, bid, dry run*, effort, endeavor, exertion, experiment, hassle, labor, one's all, one's level best, shot*, striving, struggle, test, toil, travail, trial, try on*, tryout, undertaking, venture, whack*, work |
| Antonyms: | idleness, pass |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | oppose action, belief |
| Synonyms: | argue, bicker, buck*, buckle down*, carry on, combat, conduct, contest, continue, defy, dispute, effect, endure, fall out, force, further, hassle, lay into*, maintain, oppose, persevere, persist, prosecute, repel, resist, row, squabble, strive, struggle, support, take on, travail, traverse, uphold, wage, withstand, wrangle, engage in, exert oneself, hammer away, light into*, make a stand against, push forward, put up an argument, spare no effort, stand up to, take pains, tangle with, toil on |
| Antonyms: | agree, believe, support, uphold |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, anxiety, bitterness, despondency, distress, grief, heartache, hurt, malaise, martyrdom, misery, rack, sadness, shock, suffering, torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe, worry, wretchedness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, joy, pleasure, well-being |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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