Synonyms for toil
tɔɪltoil

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. toil

   Work is the generic term for any continuous application of energy toward an end; work may be hard or easy. 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. Drudgery is plodding, irksome, and often menial work. Compare ACT; BUSINESS.

   Synonyms:
   achievement, action, business, deed, doing, drudgery, employment, exertion, labor, occupation, performance, product, production, work

   Antonyms:
   ease, idleness, leisure, recreation, relaxation, repose, rest, vacation

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1. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor, pain, fatigue, drudgery, work, exertion, task, travail

   Antonyms:
   ease, relaxation, rest, recreation, amusement, pleasure

2. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor, work, drudge, strive

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1. labor, labour, toilverb

   productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

   "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

2. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

   Synonyms:
   compass, comminute, tug, boil, roil, grind, dig, craunch, drudge, moil, dig up, tire, wear out, poke, cut into, crunch, churn, cranch, jab, grasp, weary, prod, jade, tire out, wear upon, fatigue, travail, delve, get the picture, drive, hollow, stab, apprehend, outwear, comprehend, turn over, excavate, labor, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag out, labour

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1. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor (hard), work, strive, drudge, moil, exert one's self, take pains

2. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor (that fatigues), work, exertion, pains, effort, drudgery, hard work

3. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   snare, net, trap

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1. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor, drudgery, toils, snare, trap

2. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor, moil, drudge

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1. List of paraphrases for "toil":

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1. Oliver Goldsmith:

   The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled.

2. Edmund Spenser:

   Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

3. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

4. Saadi Shirazi:

   Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.

5. George Gordon Byron:

   To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain.