| 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 |
| Main Entry: | ado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fuss |
Synonyms: |
bother, confusion, excitement, flurry, hubbub, to-do, travail, trouble, turmoil |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childbirth |
Synonyms: |
Caesarian section, accouchement, bearing, birth, birthing, bringing forth, childbearing, confinement, geniture, labor, lying-in, parturition, travail |
| Main Entry: | drudge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
Synonyms: |
back to the salt mines, dig, grind*, hammer*, keep nose to grindstone, labor, muck, perform, plod, plow, plug away, pound*, schlepp, slave, slog, sweat, toil, travail |
Antonyms: |
avoid, be lazy, dodge, hesitate, idle |
| 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: | 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, pains, 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 |
Antonyms: |
hesitation, idleness, inactivity, laziness, passivity |
| 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: | 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 |