struggle

Speech parts

1. struggle - Noun

2. struggle - Verb

Meaning

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.

To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.

A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.

Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.

Contest; contention; strife.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

battle effort conflict fight labor contend endeavor scramble war work combat difficulty contest strain clash
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Antonyms

noah concord potter pax amity dally
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Hypernyms

attempt travail effort try seek essay

Hyponyms

bandy SPAR war attack battle labour

Phrases with the word

struggle with struggle against struggle for struggle on competitive struggle freedom struggle

Derivatives

struggled struggling

Examples

God in His goodness has arranged things perfectly, so that with our gifts, we can help each other, and with our faults, we can be humbled by each other. For every person has some gifts; but everyone also has some faults which one must struggle to overcome. Paisios of Mount Athos

The spiritual combat in which we kill our passions to put on the new man is the most difficult struggle of all. We must never weary of this combat, but fight the holy fight fervently and perseveringly. Nilus of Sinai

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli

The falcon does not struggle when he is caught. Moroccan Proverb

There's no worse struggle than one that never begins. Mexican Proverb

Better to struggle with a sick jackass than carry the wood by yourself. Zen Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Struer Struesel Struga struggle against struggle along struggle bus