struggle | Definition of struggle

struggle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of struggle

1 to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

each week I would struggle through my piano lesson, keenly aware that I wasn't getting any better

Synonyms of struggle

blunder, bumble, flog [British], flounder, limp, lumber, plod, stumble, trudge

Words Related to struggle

jog, shamble, shuffle

falter, lurch, reel, stagger, sway, teeter, totter

Near Antonyms of struggle

coast, fly, glide, kilt, sail, zip, zoom

2 to devote serious and sustained effort

the financially strapped couple struggled to make ends meet

Synonyms of struggle

bang away, beaver (away), dig (away), drudge, endeavor, fag, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg (away), plod, plow, plug, slave, slog, strain, strive, sweat, toil, travail, tug, work

Words Related to struggle

apply (oneself), buckle (down), dig in, hammer (away), knuckle down, pitch in

exercise, exert, overexert, overwork

eke out, grind (out), put out, scrabble, scratch

Phrases Synonymous with struggle

Near Antonyms of struggle

break, ease (up), let up, slacken

bum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg out

bask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwind

dabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about [British], mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle