Antonyms for toil
tɔɪltoil

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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.

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 6 votes

1. toilnoun

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

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

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. toilnoun

   Synonyms:
   labor, drudgery, toils, snare, trap

2. toilverb

   Synonyms:
   labor, moil, drudge

How to use toil in a sentence?

1. Epictetus:

   Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

2. Emily Dickinson:

   Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

3. D. H. Lawrence:

   Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

4. Alexander The Great:

   Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

5. Theodore Ruskin:

   The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

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