Striving synonyms and antonyms

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struggle
A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty:
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strife
Heated, often violent conflict or disagreement.
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conative
Having to do with conation
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attempt
Attempt is defined as to make an effort to do something.
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contend
To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
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strain
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
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conation
The aspect of mental processes or behavior directed toward action or change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving.
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contest
To contest is to dispute or fight for something.
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crusade
To crusade is defined as to rebel against an unfair practice.
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strive
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
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try
To put to test.
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vie
To struggle for superiority (with someone) or enter into competition (for something); compete
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work
To make or decorate by needlework:
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effort
An endeavour.
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endeavor
A conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt.
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exertion
Exertion is defined as physical or mental effort, or to the use of force or influence.
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pain
(Uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
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trouble
A distressing or difficult happening or situation
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while
A period of time:
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elbow grease
Vigorous physical effort, as that used in scrubbing or polishing something
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battle
An intense competition:
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competition
A competitor:
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race
An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies.
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rivalry
The definition of a rivalry is a competition or contest.
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tug of war
(Idiomatic) a dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back and forth dispute.
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war
A condition of active antagonism or contention:
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warfare
Conflict or struggle of any kind
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conflict (related)
The definition of a conflict is a fight or disagreement.
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nisus
A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
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pains
(used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
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endeavoring
(Archaic) To try to achieve
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straining
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
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reaching
(Naut.) To sail on a reach
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working
To behave in a specified way when handled or processed:
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vying
To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
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undertaking
(Informal, former) To work as an undertaker
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trying
To work on something.
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toiling
To labor continuously; work strenuously.
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struggling
To bring, put, do, etc. by struggling
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seeking
To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
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pushing
(Intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
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laboring
To work; toil
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fighting
To struggle or work hard in trying to beat or overcome someone or something; contend
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exerting
To bring to bear; exercise:
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contending
To strive in combat; fight
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competing
To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
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buffeting
To struggle or force a way by struggling
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battling
To engage in or as if in battle.
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attempting
(Archaic) To try to seize or get control of by attacking.
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aiming
(Intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well.
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forgetting (antonym)
To forget things; be forgetful
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skipping (antonym)
To leap lightly over.
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conatus
A nisus.
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  • The constant striving after these three ends is the key to Bacon's life.

  • With Epiphanes, his son, he was the leader of a philosophic school basing its theories mainly upon Platonism, and striving to amalgamate Plato's Republic with the Christian ideal of human brotherhood.

  • He attached himself naturally to Cardinal Beaufort, and even thus early seems to have been striving for a general peace.

  • We are striving to settle the question of our own harbour peacefully.

  • That doctrine took some few years to produce its effect, but it became evident at once to those who accepted Darwinism that the natural classification of animals, after which collectors and anatomists, morphologists, philosophers and embryologists had been so long striving, was nothing more nor less than a genealogical tree, with breaks and gaps of various extent in its record.

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