struggles
Uphill battles fought
Struggles are difficult efforts against resistance or opposition.
The word captures both the effort and the hardship: financial struggles, the struggles of daily life.
Someone who struggles with addiction fights an ongoing battle.
A company struggles to stay afloat.
The plural often emphasizes repeated or various difficulties rather than a single contest: We all have our struggles.
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- exertionVigorous physical effort
- strivingEarnest sustained endeavor
- grindCrush into particles
perseverance · determination · persistence · grit · tenacity · sweat · work · push
Armed military engagement
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- fightPhysical or verbal conflict
- confrontationDirect hostile encounter
tension · opposition · strife · friction · contention · discord · rivalry · feud
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- tribulationState of great distress
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
- setbackReverse in progress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
ordeal · plight · affliction · distress · woe · tragedy · calamity · difficulty
Minimal means of living
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- povertySevere lack of resources
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- famineSevere food shortage
deprivation · scarcity · desperation · rationing · shelter · sustenance · starvation · making ends meet
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- exertionVigorous physical effort
- strivingEarnest sustained endeavor
grind · perseverance · determination · persistence · grit · tenacity · sweat · work · push · endeavor
battle
Armed military engagement
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
- fightPhysical or verbal conflict
confrontation · tension · opposition · strife · friction · contention · discord · rivalry · feud · hostility
hardship
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- tribulationState of great distress
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
- setbackReverse in progress
suffering · ordeal · plight · affliction · distress · woe · tragedy · calamity · difficulty · obstacle
subsistence
Minimal means of living
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- povertySevere lack of resources
- hungerNeed for nourishment
famine · deprivation · scarcity · desperation · rationing · shelter · sustenance · starvation · making ends meet · hand-to-mouth
- hardshipshardship, adversity, misfortune, difficulties, ordeal
- life storyautobiography, memoir, early years, childhood, memories
- personalself, privacy, personal space, identity, name
- biography sectionsearly life, childhood, education, youth, school years
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- goalsgoals, goal, aims, objective, objectives
strugglescooperates
Works jointly with others
harmonizes · agrees · reconciles · makes peace · yields
- power struggleContest for dominance
- eternal struggleCeaseless opposition between forces
- inner struggleMental or emotional turmoil
- personal strugglesIndividual challenges one faces
- moral struggleInternal debate over rightness
- internal struggle