Adjacent Words

Struggling definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRUGGLING, ppr. Making great efforts; using violent exertions; affected with contortions.
STRUGGLING, n. The act of striving; vehement or earnest effort.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists"

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Struggle Strug"gle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Struggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Struggling.] [OE. strogelen; cf. Icel. strj?ka to stroke, to beat, to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln to stumble. Cf. Stroll.] 1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it [Gettysburg] far above our power to add or detract. --Lincoln. 3. To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress. 'T is wisdom to beware, And better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. --Dryden. Syn: To strive; contend; labor; endeavor.

Moby Thesaurus

battling, contending, contestant, contesting, disputant, drudging, fighting, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, laboring, pegging, plodding, plugging, quarrelsome, slaving, slogging, straining, striving, sweating, toiling, warlike, warring, working