Work Synonyms and Antonyms

wûrk
Something to be done
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. commitment
  2. task
  3. workplace
  4. obligation
The doing of work, sense 1
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. labor
  2. drudgery
  3. toil
  4. employment
  5. industry
  6. exertion
  7. occupation
  8. production
  9. effort
  10. profession
  11. vocation
  12. oeuvre
  13. performance
  14. endeavor
  15. calling
  16. practice
  17. activity
  18. manufacture
  19. operation
  20. transaction
  21. functioning
  22. stress
  23. struggle
  24. slavery
  25. accomplishment
  26. trial
  27. push
  28. assiduity
  29. attempt
  30. assignment
  31. pains
  32. elbow grease
  33. business
  34. muscle
  35. working
  36. career
  37. on-the-job
  38. engaged
  39. chef-d'oeuvre
  40. shoot
  41. slaughter
  42. commission
  43. murder
  44. corpus
  45. prepared for
  46. budgeted
  47. diligence
  48. study
  49. in process
  50. approved
  51. finish off
  52. deal with
  53. duty
  54. dispose of
  55. not at work
  56. off-duty
  57. not on duty
  58. gone
  59. gone home
  60. out-of-work
  61. forte
  62. not hired
  63. dismissed
  64. looking for a job
  65. redundant (British)
  66. job
  67. risk everything
  68. gamble
  69. everything
  70. magnum opus
  71. go the limit
  72. moil
  73. opus
  74. quota
  75. sedulity
  76. striving
  77. task
  78. travail
  79. body-of-work
Antonyms:
  1. dabbling
  2. dalliance
  3. dilettanteism
  4. idleness
  5. leisure
  6. relaxation
  7. sloth
  8. sluggardy
  9. trifling
  10. truancy
  11. vacation
  12. dabble
  13. idle
  14. loaf
  15. shirk
  16. soldier (colloq.)
  17. failure
  18. loss
To labor
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chore
  2. slave
  3. cultivate
  4. sweat
  5. toil
  6. struggle
  7. strive
  8. solve
  9. do a day's work
  10. do the chores
  11. exert oneself
  12. apply-oneself
  13. do one's best
  14. overexert
  15. overwork
  16. overstrain
  17. get to work
  18. work overtime
  19. work day and night
  20. work early and late
  21. work one's way up
  22. fight one's way up
  23. accomplish
  24. achievement
  25. tax one's energies
  26. act
  27. activity
  28. pull
  29. attempt
  30. business
  31. plod
  32. calling
  33. tug
  34. career
  35. commitment
  36. composition
  37. craft
  38. drudge
  39. carry on
  40. drudgery
  41. duty
  42. do the job
  43. earn
  44. effervesce
  45. punch a time clock
  46. effort
  47. put in time
  48. employment
  49. endeavor
  50. pour it on
  51. exert
  52. feat
  53. not spare the horses
  54. ferment
  55. forte
  56. work-one-s-fingers-to-the-bone
  57. freelance
  58. buckle down
  59. function
  60. grind
  61. bear-down
  62. industry
  63. job
  64. work-like-a-horse
  65. labor
  66. line
  67. work like a dog
  68. livelihood
  69. work like a slave
  70. manipulate
  71. manufacture
  72. keep at it
  73. mill
  74. work out
  75. mission
  76. stay with it
  77. move
  78. put-one-s-shoulder-to-the-wheel
  79. muscle
  80. occupation
  81. burn the candle at both ends
  82. operate
  83. opus
  84. burn-the-midnight-oil
  85. output
  86. pains
  87. pattern
  88. perform
  89. performance
  90. piece
  91. production
  92. profession
  93. pursuit
  94. racket
  95. skill
  96. figure out
  97. stint
  98. strain
  99. task
  100. tend
  101. thrive
  102. till
  103. trade
  104. travail
  105. trouble
  106. undertaking
  107. vocation
  108. puzzle out
  109. lick
  110. crop
To be employed
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. earn one's living
  2. earn-a-living
  3. have a job
  4. hold a position
  5. occupy a post
  6. report for work
  7. be off the dole
  8. be off the welfare rolls
  9. be among the gainfully employed
  10. do work
  11. be on the job
  12. do-time
  13. do one's stint
  14. be working on the railroad
  15. be a wage slave
Antonyms:
  1. idle
  2. dabbling
  3. dalliance
  4. dilettanteism
  5. idleness
  6. leisure
  7. relaxation
  8. sloth
  9. sluggardy
  10. trifling
  11. truancy
  12. vacation
  13. dabble
  14. loaf
  15. shirk
  16. soldier (colloq.)
  17. failure
  18. loss
  19. entertainment
  20. fun
  21. pastime
  22. laze
  23. relax
  24. rest
To function
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. act
  2. go
  3. operate
  4. run
  5. function
  6. serve
To handle successfully
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. control
  2. accomplish
  3. exploit
  4. influence
  5. manage
  6. act-upon
To fashion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. form
  2. mold
  3. give form to
  4. sculpture
  5. knead
  6. shape
  7. mould
  8. forge
Give a workout to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. work-on
  2. exercise
  3. work out
  4. process
Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bring
  2. put to work
  3. play
  4. wreak
  5. make-for
Proceed along a path
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. make
A product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. piece-of-work

Words Related to Work

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Work Sentence Examples

  • It did work this morning.

  • Every day there is much work to be done.

  • After Alex goes to work and Jonathan goes to school, Destiny and I do the chores.

  • I like to work accurately.

  • It will be so much fun to work on it with Jonathan and Destiny.

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