Antonyms 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.

   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. Livy:

   Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

2. Henry David Thoreau:

   A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

3. 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.

4. Emily Dickinson:

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

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.

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