Word Meanings - STRIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest;

Additional info about word: STRIVE

1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. Chaucer. My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Gen. vi. 3. Why dost thou strive against him Job xxxiii. 13. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. Denham. 3. To vie; to compete; to be a rival. Chaucer. that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this paradise Of Eden strive. Milton. Syn. -- To contend; vie; struggle; endeavor; aim.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRIVE)

• Attempt
• Try
• endeavor
• strive
• undertake
• seek
• essay
• attack
• violate
• force
• Contend
• Strive
• compete
• cope
• dispute
• vie
• contest
• struggle
• grapple
• argue
• maintain
• disagree
• wrangle
• Cope
• Rival
• Emulate
• challenge
• equal
• contend
• Seek
• Search
• inquire
• pursue
• solicit
• attempt
• investigate
• trace
• prosecute
• follow
• court
• affect

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STRIVE)

• Pass
• allow
• grant
• concede
• Repel
• abjure
• disaffect
• insult
• avoid
• repudiate
• Pretermit
• disregard
• abandon
• misinvestigate

Related words: (words related to STRIVE)

• RIVALESS
  A female rival. Richardson.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• STRUGGLER
  One who struggles.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT