Synonyms for toil
- noun
- verb
Definitions
- n. 1
Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
- v. 1
To labour; work.
Choose the right word
Labor is hard and wearying work; toil is straining and exhausting work. Work is also used for any result of working, physical or mental, and has special senses, as in mechanics, which labor and toil do not share.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- struggle For Sami, not dwelling on the past was a struggle.
- sweat Their grace comes from hard work, sweat, and pain.
- fatigue He was pale with fatigue after his sleepless night.
- drudgery Work is drudgery if you don't think it's meditative.
By length
- 3 letters
- net1, dig1, tug1, fag1
- 4 letters
- work1, pain1, task1, plod1
- 5 letters
- labor2, slave1, sweat1, grind1, snare1, heave1, moyle1, swink1
- 6 letters
- effort2, labour2, strive1, drudge1
- 7 letters
- fatigue2, travail2, springe
- 8 letters
- industry3, struggle2, endeavor3, hardship2, exertion3, drudgery3
- 9 letters
- endeavour3
- 10 letters
- employment3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (labor2 = 2 syllables).