carrying on
Keeping at it
Carrying on means continuing despite difficulty or interruption: She's carrying on with her work despite the setbacks.
It also describes behaving badly or making a fuss: The children were carrying on in the back seat.
In British usage, carrying on with someone suggests an illicit romantic affair: He'd been carrying on with his secretary for years.
- persistingContinuing through difficulty
- keeping goingMaintaining forward progress
- continuingGoing on without stopping
- going onIn the process
- affairRomantic entanglement outside commitment
secret romance · proceeding · soldiering on · dramatics · enduring · theatrics · making a scene · misbehaving · sustaining · acting up · lasting · fling · dalliance · tenacity · advancing · commotion · fuss · outburst
- excessive talkingchatter, chattering, babbling, blather, prattle
- mischiefmischief, hijinks, antics, pranks, antic
- theatricstheatrics, dramatics, melodrama, histrionics, theatricality
- tomfoolerysilliness, foolery, clownery, clownishness, goofing off
- passing downtradition, legacy, heritage, passing down, heirlooms
- persistingpersisting, persevering, persistence, perseverance, continuing
carrying onstopping
Ceasing to continue
quitting · ceasing · halting · discontinuing · ending
carrying onkeeping calm
carrying ongiving up
Choosing to stop trying
surrendering · capitulating · throwing in the towel · caving in · yielding
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