toiling

/'tɔiliɳ/

Thân thiện

The farmer is toiling in the field under the hot sun.

Definition

Adjective: - Engaged in hard, continuous, and often physically demanding work: Describes someone who is working strenuously, typically with effort and persistence, often in a laborious or tiring job.

Usage

The adjective "toiling" is used to describe a person or group of people who are working very hard, usually in a manual or demanding occupation. It emphasizes the sustained, strenuous, and often wearying nature of the labor. It is typically used attributively (before a noun) or predictively (after a linking verb like "was").

Examples

• The toiling workers finally finished the construction project.
• She spent the entire day toiling in the hot sun to prepare the field.
• The novel depicts the harsh life of the toiling masses during the industrial revolution.
• After hours of toiling over the report, he felt exhausted.

Advanced Usage

• "Toiling away": This phrasal verb emphasizes continuous, often unnoticed, hard work over a period of time.
  • He has been toiling away in his workshop for weeks on the new invention.

Variants and Related Words

• Toil (verb): To work extremely hard or incessantly; to engage in strenuous labor.
  • They toiled from dawn till dusk.
• Toil (noun): Exhausting physical labor.
  • A life of toil.
• Toiler (noun): A person who toils; a hard worker.
  • The anonymous toilers who built the city.

Synonyms

• Laboring: Working hard, especially physically.
• Drudging: Doing hard, menial, or dull work.
• Slogging: Working or walking doggedly with great effort.
• Grinding: (Of work) demanding and repetitive.

Antonyms

• Idle: Avoiding work; lazy.
• Relaxing: Resting or engaging in leisure.
• Leisurely: Acting or done at leisure; unhurried or relaxed.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Toil and moil: An archaic phrase meaning to work hard and struggle. (Note: "moil" is a near-synonym for toil).
  • They toiled and moiled for a meager wage.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. doing arduous or unpleasant work
   • drudging peasants
   • the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
   • toiling coal miners in the black deeps

Từ đồng nghĩa

• drudging
• laboring
• labouring