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| Main Entry: | trying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, bothersome |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arduous, demanding, exacting, exigent, hard, irksome, irritating, onerous, oppressive, pestilent, provocative, rough, severe, sticky, strenuous, taxing, tight, tiresome, tough, tricky, troublesome, wearisome, weighty, aggravating, exasperating, fatiguing, stressful, upsetting, vexing |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, mild, moderate, unstressful |
| Main Entry: | try |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt |
| Synonyms: | aim, aspire, attack, bear down, chip away at, compete, contend, contest, do one's best, drive for, endeavor, essay, exert oneself, go after, go all out, go for, have a crack, have a go, have a shot, have a stab, have a whack, knock oneself out, labor, lift a finger, make a bid, make a pass at, make an attempt, make an effort, propose, put oneself out, risk, seek, shoot for, speculate, strive, struggle, tackle, undertake, venture, vie for, work, wrangle |
| Notes: | an endeavor is a purposeful or industrious undertaking that requires effort; try is an attempt or effort |
| Antonyms: | abstain |
| Main Entry: | try |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | experiment, test |
| Synonyms: | appraise, assay, check, check out, evaluate, examine, inspect, investigate, judge, prove, sample, scrutinize, taste, weigh, put to the proof, put to the test, try out |
| Antonyms: | abstain |
| Main Entry: | try |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, afflict |
| Synonyms: | agonize, annoy, crucify, distress, harass, inconvenience, irk, irritate, martyr, pain, plague, rack, strain, stress, tax, tire, torment, torture, trouble, upset, vex, weary, wring, excruciate |
| Antonyms: | delight, please |
| Main Entry: | try |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring before a judge |
| Synonyms: | adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, decide, examine, hear, judge, referee, give a hearing, sit in judgment |
| Main Entry: | arduous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, hard to endure |
| Synonyms: | backbreaking, burdensome, formidable, grueling, harsh, heavy, labored, laborious, murder, onerous, painful, punishing, rigorous, rough, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiring, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, exhausting, fatiguing, no picnic |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, motivating |
| Main Entry: | burdensome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | demanding, difficult, disturbing, exacting, exigent, heavy*, irksome, onerous, oppressive, taxing, tough, trying, wearing, weighty, carking, crushing, superincumbent, wearying |
| Antonyms: | helpful, helping, aiding, relieving, unburdensome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
| Synonyms: | acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable, ill-humored, nasty-tempered, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | challenging, urgent |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty, backbreaker, exhausting, nagging |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | exacting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | burdensome, careful, critical, difficult, exigent, finicky, fussy, grievous, hard, harsh, hypercritical, imperious, onerous, oppressive, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, trying, unsparing, weighty, by the book, nit-picking |
| Antonyms: | giving, lending |
| Main Entry: | grueling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, taxing |
| Synonyms: | arduous, backbreaking, brutal, demanding, excruciating, fierce, grinding, hairy*, hard, harsh, heavy*, laborious, punishing, severe, stiff, strenuous, tiring, trying, chastening, crushing, exhausting, fatiguing, racking, torturous |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maddening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, provoking, trying, vexatious, aggravating, exasperating, frustrating, infuriating, riling, troubling |
| Main Entry: | nerve-racking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressing |
| Synonyms: | annoying, disquieting, disturbing, irksome, irritating, maddening, taxing, tense, trying, aggravating, exasperating, stressful, upsetting |
| Main Entry: | nettlesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, bothersome, burdensome, distressing, disturbing, irksome, troublesome, trying, vexatious, aggravating, exasperating, nagging, vexing |
| Main Entry: | painful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally agonizing |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, sensitive, severe, sharp, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious, aching, afflictive, extremely bad, hurting, saddening, smarting, throbbing, tormenting |
| Antonyms: | delightful, easy, pleasant, painless |
| Main Entry: | taxing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burdensome |
| Synonyms: | demanding, difficult, disturbing, exacting, exigent, grievous, heavy, onerous, oppressive, punishing, tedious, tiring, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weighty, enervating, sapping, stressful |
| Antonyms: | easy, untroubling |
| Main Entry: | ticklish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, tricky |
| Synonyms: | awkward, capricious, chancy, changeable, critical, dangerous, delicate, fickle, inconstant, mercurial, nice, precarious, risky, rocky, sensitive, temperamental, thorny, touchy, trying, uncertain, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile |
| Antonyms: | easy, straightforward, unproblematic |
| Main Entry: | tiresome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating, exasperating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arduous, boring, burdensome, demanding, difficult, drag, dragging, dull, exacting, flat, hard, heavy, hefty, humdrum, irksome, laborious, monotonous, onerous, oppressive, strenuous, tedious, tired, tiring, too much*, tough, trying, uninteresting, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, yawn*, a bit much, boresome, drudging, enervative, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, jading, nowhere, uncool, unrelieved, wearying |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, fun, nice, stimulating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | troublesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome, worrisome |
| Synonyms: | alarming, annoying, arduous, burdensome, damaging, dangerous, demanding, difficult, disquieting, hard, heavy, importunate, inconvenient, intractable, irksome, irritating, laborious, mean, messy, murder, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestiferous, problematic, refractory, rough, taxing, tiresome, tough, tricky, trying, ugly, ungovernable, unruly, uphill, vexatious, wearisome, wicked, worrying, harassing, infestive, pestilential, repressive, troublous, upsetting, vexing |
| Antonyms: | easy, helpful, nice, useful |
| Main Entry: | vexatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressing, bothersome |
| Synonyms: | annoying, burdensome, disagreeable, disappointing, disturbing, irksome, irritating, mean, pesky*, provoking, teasing, troublesome, trying, ugly, unpleasant, wicked, worrisome, worrying, afflicting, aggravating, exasperating, nagging, tormenting, troublous, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | assisting, helpful, pleasing, soothing, aiding |
* = 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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