Struggle

Word STRUGGLE
Character 8
Hyphenation strug gle
Pronunciations /ˈstrʌɡəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Struggle"

What do we mean by struggle?

To exert muscular energy, as against a material force or mass. intransitive verb

To be strenuously engaged with a problem, task, or undertaking. intransitive verb

To have difficulty or make a strenuous effort doing something. intransitive verb

To move or progress with difficulty. intransitive verb

To contend or compete. intransitive verb

To move or place (something) with an effort. intransitive verb

The act of struggling. noun

A strenuous effort in the face of difficulty. noun

Strife, contention, or combat. noun

Something that is difficult to do or achieve. noun

A violent effort; a strenuous or straining exertion; a strenuous endeavor to accomplish, avoid, or escape something; a contest with some opposing force: as, a struggle to get free; the struggle of death; a struggle with poverty. noun

Synonyms Endeavor. Effort, Exertion, Pains, Labor. Struggle. See strife. The above are in the order of strength. noun

To put forth violent effort, as in an emergency or as a result of intense excitation; act or strive strenuously against some antagonistic force or influence; be engaged in an earnest effort or conflict; labor or contend urgently, as for some object: used chiefly of persons, but also, figuratively, of things.

Synonyms Strive, etc. (see attempt); toil.

A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress. noun

Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil. noun

Contest; contention; strife. noun

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. intransitive verb

To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly. intransitive verb

A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.

Strife, contention, great effort.

My life Urban Dictionary

A profound state of buffoonery or oafishness characterized by pitiful performance or inability to complete menial tasks; When referring to an object, it indicates a laughable or rough appearance. Urban Dictionary

Getting definitions pulished. see HArd Urban Dictionary

Obvious complications, problems, troubles, or difficulty for a person, place or thing Urban Dictionary

"The Struggle" refers to the difficulty and danger that is faced, every day, by those of lower socio-economic class living in areas such as housing projects and ghettos. It is a term often used to in Hip-Hop music, particularly Gangsta Rap, as a means of enlightening the listener to the difficulty of day to day life for many African-Americans living in such localities. Urban Dictionary

When you're having a difficult time. Urban Dictionary

Anybody on the grind. Anybody who is going through physical and emotional struggles on a daily basis. In the ghetto, these may include poverty, drugs, crime. Elsewhere, this may include family breakup, constant relocating, and drugs. Urban Dictionary

Extremely ugly, haggard, broke down, and tore up. Urban Dictionary

A general response to anything bad that happens to someone. Comparable to "That sucks." Urban Dictionary

In the context of sports, when a team or player is offering an uncharacteristically poor performance over an extended period of time. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Struggle

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The word "struggle" in example sentences

The great principle at the bottom of everything in Nature is that the fittest survives: or, as I think it is better to say it, in any particular conflict or struggle that thing survives which is the fittest to survive _in this particular struggle_. ❋ Various (1880)

But while this security will become complete under the régime of socialism, which will assure to every man who works the material means of life, this will not exclude the intellectual forms of the struggle for existence which M. Tchisch recently said should be interpreted not only in the sense of a _struggle for life_, but also in the sense of a _struggle for the enrichment of life_. [ ❋ Enrico Ferri (1894)

His main struggle is going to be Hillary trying to sabotage his campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The character's main struggle is to keep her dual identities separate in accordinace with society's rules that you be either boy or girl but never both. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I put in the time to watch them struggle with their emotion (I use the term struggle loosely) only to have some anti-climatic kiss in the back of a flower shop and a lame professing of love. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though the bishop went on to explain that the struggle is a spiritual one and the means nonviolent, he announced an apocalyptic struggle against evil “that may rival any in time past.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

In many ways -- not all, but many -- our struggle is theirs and their struggle is ours, and the struggle of others too. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

"We are now two-and-a-half years deep into a crisis, and for the [average] homeowner the struggle is as great today as it was before," says Eileen Anderson, senior vice president of Community Development Corp. of Long Island, a New York state nonprofit housing organization. ❋ Vanessa O'Connell (2010)

I think here the struggle is the disparity between how much art there is and how so little access there is to it for certain communities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From car accident to corporate looting, from criminal case to child custody dispute, the struggle is always a fight to fit the available facts for judge and jury into a credible narrative that serves a specific outcome. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Everytime a gay person says that their struggle is the same as the black person is funny. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Because his struggle is also our struggle, and today we urgently need a change ❋ Unknown (2008)

But truly the fact that I am not alone in this struggle is the biggest comfort. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[my life] is [such a] struggle ❋ Banana089 (2014)

"Wow. Look at that guy. He looks like a [dumptruck] ran over [his face]. He [struggles hard]." ❋ Fine Ass Belle Squeeze (2004)

its a struggle ❋ LaLaLesbian (2019)

Lindsay Lohan had constant struggles with her teeth until she hit up [the dentist]. [Champs] struggles so tough if they don't get the new retro [4's]. ❋ D Baah (2009)

Pour a forty on the [kerb], G. [For the homies] [who died] in "the struggle". ❋ Marshall T. Bear (2007)

it's appropiate in a variety of context, like, when you're having a [bad day],when you're [running late] for work, when you're broke, when you've just been [punched in the face]. you're on the struggle. ❋ K-Holla (2006)

ghetto [struggle]: Damn man [we livin] the struggle here in da [projects] ❋ Playa4life (2007)

(10-year reunion) Megan: "Hey Jake, remember me?" Jake: "Oh yeah, Candy, the dirty hooker from 57th and Market...have those warts cleared up yet?" Megan: "No, silly, I was the head cheerleader, remember? You always wanted to go out with me, but I was dating the star quarterback of the football team. Well now I'm available..." Jake: "[Shit bitch], you were [smokin' hot] back then, but now [you're straight] up struuuuggling! Scat!" ❋ Nick D (2005)

[Herald]: Dude, I had to borrow money from my girlfriend cause I forgot my wallet. It was so [embarassing]! Fred: The Struggle Jeff: My [souvenir] Canadian money totally melted in the car. Nick: The Struggle ❋ Struggling Joe (2012)

-Wow, our team has been playing [decent] all [season], but they've lost their last [five] games! -Yeah, they're really struggling right now. ❋ Djbeerman (2008)

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