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Synonyms for striving
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Princeton's WordNet
striving, nisus, pains, strain(noun)
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
Synonyms:
tune, pains, melody, form, breed, straining, melodic line, stress, nisus, strain, tenor, var., air, variant, line, stock, nervous strain, melodic phrase, mental strain, song
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "striving":
endeavouring, trying, struggling, seeking, fighting, attempting, strive
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #228 | line | |
| #368 | form | |
| #434 | stock | |
| #478 | air | |
| #1225 | song | |
| #1429 | trying | |
| #2825 | seeking | |
| #2989 | stress | |
| #3676 | fighting | |
| #5858 | tune | |
| #6612 | strain | |
| #7484 | breed | |
| #8337 | attempting | |
| #10480 | struggling | |
| #10860 | variant | |
| #11131 | melody | |
| #11336 | strive | |
| #14639 | pains | |
| #15883 | tenor | |
| #16119 | striving | |
| #36511 | straining | |
| #79708 | endeavouring | |
| #92062 | nisus |
How to use striving in a sentence?
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Her capability is astounding and motivating as all hell, i get on a set with her - and I have been acting since I was 9 - whoa, I am not there yet. I am striving; I am trying.
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