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Antonyms for drudgery
ˈdrʌdʒ ə ridrud·ge·ry
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drudgery
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, vacationSynonyms:
achievement, action, business, deed, doing, employment, exertion, labor, occupation, performance, product, production, toil, work
Princeton's WordNet
drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeyworknoun
hard monotonous routine work
Synonyms:
pulverization, donkeywork, pulverisation, wonk, plod, nerd, plodding, grind, mill, dweeb, swot
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adventure
How to use drudgery in a sentence?
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.
Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.
The acquisition of Panaya is a key step in renewing and differentiating our service lines, this will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our clients.
This will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our clients.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1504 | vacation | |
#1547 | rest | |
#2587 | recreation | |
#3291 | leisure | |
#4819 | ease | |
#9757 | relaxation | |
#38211 | repose | |
#67297 | idleness | |
#72666 | drudgery |
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