Drudging

  • 31grinding — Synonyms and related words: ablation, ablative, abradant, abrasion, abrasive, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, application, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, atomization, attrition, attritive, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, beating …

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  • 32hardworking — Synonyms and related words: ardent, assiduous, diligent, drudging, energetic, fervent, grinding, grubbing, hard, indefatigable, industrious, laboring, laborious, never idle, pegging, plodding, plugging, relentless, sedulous, slaving, sleepless,… …

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  • 33irksome — Synonyms and related words: aggravating, annoying, backbreaking, besetting, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, chafing, crushing, disturbing, drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, galling, grueling,… …

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  • 34plodding — Synonyms and related words: application, arid, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, banausic, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bulldog tenacity, characterless, cold, colorless, concentration, constancy, constant, continuing, dead, diligence,… …

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  • 35plugging — Synonyms and related words: application, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, concentration, constancy, constant, continuing, diligence, diligent, dogged, dogged perseverance, doggedness, donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, drudging,… …

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  • 36straining — Synonyms and related words: bloat, bloating, bolting, breaking point, cautious, clarification, colature, coloring, confabulation, corruption, demurring, destructive distillation, diffident, distension, distillation, distortion, draining, drudging …

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  • 37striving — Synonyms and related words: aim, ambition, animus, aspiration, battling, combat, competition, conflict, contending, contestant, contesting, counsel, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, disputant, drudging, effect, effort,… …

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  • 38struggling — Synonyms and related words: battling, contending, contestant, contesting, disputant, drudging, fighting, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, laboring, pegging, plodding, plugging, quarrelsome, slaving, slogging, straining, striving, sweating,… …

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  • 39sweating — Synonyms and related words: ardent, baking, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, clammy, condensation, diaphoretic, distillation, drenched with sweat, dribble, drip, dripping, drop,… …

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  • 40tedious — Synonyms and related words: alliterating, alliterative, arid, assonant, automatic, banal, barren, belabored, betwixt and between, blah, blank, bloodless, boresome, boring, broken record, bromidic, changeless, chanting, characterless, chiming,… …

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