Effort synonyms and antonyms
ĕf'ərt
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An earnest attempt or effort
Exertion is defined as physical or mental effort, or to the use of force or influence.
Change in form or size, or both, resulting from stress or force
A thrust, as with a knife or dagger
work (related)
Something that has been made or done; result of a specific kind of activity or way of working [to have dental work done, skillful brushwork]
A sudden short burst, as of energy, activity, or growth.
A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need:
Strength; energy; vigor; power
The act of striving
Something resembling such a composition:
carelessness (antonym)
The work accomplished by, or the role in production of, all workers, esp. workers for wages
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toil and trouble
The act of striving
An act of tasting or sampling.
Force exerted in pulling or required to overcome resistance in pulling:
The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
A formal statement of a decision or expression of opinion put before or adopted by an assembly such as the US Congress.
Vigorous physical effort, as that used in scrubbing or polishing something
sloth (antonym)
Sloth is laziness or a lack of effort, or a slow-moving, tree-hanging mammal from Central and South America.
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The process of achieving something:
Constant personal attention and often obsequious solicitude.
ambition (related)
Labor pains; pains of childbirth
A formal adversarial proceeding to hear evidence and decide legal issues and claims. Trials are covered by established rules of courtroom procedure as well as rules of evidence.
A vaccination or injection.
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An applied force or system of forces that tends to strain or deform a body.
An instance of tugging; a strong or sudden pull:
sweat-of-one-s-brow
(Idiomatic) The effort extended in labor, and the value created thereby.
Toil means continuous and hard work.
A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty:
Performed through a concert of effort; done by agreement or in combination.
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Requiring great effort, energy, or exertion:
Force; exertion
To exercise is defined as to engage in physical activity for the purposes of working your body to stay healthy.
A period of time:
Something accomplished; an achievement.
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An acquiring or being acquired
The definition of an acquisition is the act of getting or receiving something, or the item that was received.
Something, such as an accomplishment or achievement, that is attained.
heavy (related)
Something heavy
do (related)
(Colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
load (related)
Genetic load.
An act or accomplishment showing unusual daring, skill, endurance, etc.; remarkable deed; exploit
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An achievement.
A basis for an action or response; a reason:
A vigorous, concerted action for some cause or idea, or against some abuse
An organized effort by supporters of a common goal:
hard-work (related)
committment (related)
contribution (related)
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attempt-to (related)
goal (related)
Strenuous labor or exertion:
(Uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
(used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something:
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Military or physical training, esp. of a group, as in marching, the manual of arms, or gymnastic exercises
Whirl means the act of spinning or twirling, or a state of confusion.
Showing or characterized by persistent attention or untiring application:
conative
Having to do with conation
Organized, working together, cooperating.
The definition of a chore is a routine or unpleasant task.
conatus
A nisus.
The effort required to carry out a responsibility or to meet a standard of care.
Something offered; presentation, proposal, suggestion, bid, etc.
A series of military operations undertaken to achieve a large-scale objective during a war:
commitment (related)
A protracted controversy or struggle:
The quality of being sedulous.
Task is something that has to be done.
A task or venture undertaken:
hesitation (antonym)
Uncertainty; indecision
idleness (antonym)
The state of being idle; inactivity.
inactivity (antonym)
The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.
passivity (antonym)
(Countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
A specific piece of work, as in one's trade, or done by agreement for pay
A moment; an instant:
(Informal) A try; attempt; endeavor
A quantitative determination of the amount of a given substance in a particular sample. Assays are regularly used to determine the purity of precious metals. They can be performed by wet methods or dry methods. In the wet method, the sample is dissolved in a reagent, like an acid, until the purified metal is separated out. In the dry method, the sample is mixed with a flux (a substance such as borax or silica that helps lower the melting temperature) and then the sample is heated to the point where impurities in the metal fuse with the flux, leaving the purified metal as a residue.
Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.
A specific use to which something is put:
A bold, difficult, dangerous, or important undertaking
The ability to hit a target or intended point:
(Informal) Persevering energy; enterprise:
A measure of such a force:
The result of such training or control
ease (antonym)
Freedom from financial difficulty; affluence:
(Baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
the old college try
An instance of effort, sense 1
Synonym Study
- ?pains suggests a laborious, diligent attempt to take pains with one's work
- Endeavor suggests an earnest, sustained attempt to accomplish a particular, usually meritorious, end a life spent in the endeavor to do good
- Exertion implies an energetic, vigorous use of power, strength, etc., often without reference to any particular end she feels faint after any exertion
- Effort implies a conscious attempt to achieve a particular end make some effort to be friendly
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