Synonyms for labor
- noun
- verb
- American English
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Work — an effort expended on a particular task; toil, work
work, toil, industry, drudgery, piece of work, service, effort, struggle, pains, exertion, sweat, fatigue, exercise, strive, swink dated
2. Travail
travail, child bed, confinement, lying-in, parturiency rare
3. Task
task, project, endeavor US, endeavour UK, undertaking
4. Parturition — the act or process of a mother giving birth
Other
delivery, moyle, proletariat, quarter section, heave, accouchement rare
Verb
Definitions
- n. 1
An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- n. 2
The act or process of a mother giving birth.
Near-synonyms: childbirth, parturition
- v. 1
To toil, to work.
- v. 2
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
Related words
- Word family
- labour-intensive laborious laborer laboratory
- Phrases
- labor union labor action labor camp labor market manual labor yeoman's labor labor relations labor share
- Other spellings
- labour UK
Choose the right word
Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- toil Toil and worry caused his health to break down.
- exertion After much exertion, he was exhausted.
- drudgery Work is drudgery if you don't think it's meditative.
- travail They finally succeeded after many months of travail.
- proletariat The proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains.
By length
- 3 letters
- dig1, tug1, fag1
- 4 letters
- work1, push1, task1, toil1, wark1
- 5 letters
- drive1, slave1, sweat1, grind1, pains1, heave1, moyle1, swink1
- 6 letters
- effort2, suffer2, strive1, hustle2, scrape1, drudge1
- 7 letters
- service2, project2, fatigue2, travail2
- 8 letters
- industry3, exercise3, struggle2, delivery4, endeavor3, exertion3, drudgery3
- 9 letters
- endeavour3
- 11 letters
- undertaking4, confinement3, proletariat5, parturition, parturiency
- 12 letters
- accouchement
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (effort2 = 2 syllables).