Exact Match:
- striving
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
Synonyms:
- aim,
- ambition,
- animus,
- aspiration,
- battling,
- combat,
- competition,
- conflict,
- contending,
- contestant,
- contesting,
- counsel,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- design,
- desire,
- determination,
- disputant,
- drudging,
- effect,
- effort,
- emulation,
- endeavor,
- essay,
- exertion,
- fight,
- fighting,
- fixed purpose,
- function,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- hardworking,
- hassle,
- idea,
- intendment,
- intent,
- intention,
- labor,
- laboring,
- meaning,
- mind,
- motive,
- nisus,
- pegging,
- plan,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- point,
- project,
- proposal,
- prospectus,
- purpose,
- quarrelsome,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- rivalry,
- sake,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- strain,
- straining,
- strife,
- struggle,
- struggling,
- study,
- sweating,
- toil,
- toiling,
- travail,
- trial,
- try,
- tug-of-war,
- undertaking,
- view,
- warfare,
- warlike,
- warring,
- will,
- work,
- working