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单词 moiling
释义

moiling

adjective

moil·​ing ˈmȯi-liŋ How to pronounce moiling (audio)
1
a
: requiring hard work
b
: industrious
2
: violently agitated : turbulent
moilingly
ˈmȯi-liŋ-lē How to pronounce moiling (audio)
adverb

Synonyms

  • arduous
  • Augean
  • backbreaking
  • challenging
  • demanding
  • difficult
  • effortful
  • exacting
  • formidable
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • hard
  • heavy
  • hellacious
  • herculean
  • killer
  • laborious
  • murderous
  • pick-and-shovel
  • rigorous
  • rough
  • rugged
  • severe
  • stiff
  • strenuous
  • sweaty
  • tall
  • testing
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • uphill
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Example Sentences

the kind of moiling work that was done by unskilled laborers before the age of mechanization

Word History

First Known Use

1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1b

moiling 1 of 2

adjective

as in difficult
requiring considerable physical or mental effort the kind of moiling work that was done by unskilled laborers before the age of mechanization

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • difficult
  • challenging
  • demanding
  • rigorous
  • tough
  • hard
  • effortful
  • formidable
  • heavy
  • sweaty
  • toilsome
  • complicated
  • rough
  • testing
  • arduous
  • murderous
  • laborious
  • backbreaking
  • strenuous
  • grueling
  • exhausting
  • uphill
  • severe
  • painful
  • tall
  • exacting
  • herculean
  • intricate
  • rugged
  • gruelling
  • hellacious
  • complex
  • stiff
  • bruising
  • labored
  • pick-and-shovel
  • killer
  • Augean
  • annoying
  • serious
  • abstruse
  • oppressive
  • trying
  • grim
  • involved
  • elusive
  • problematic
  • recondite
  • taxing
  • brutal
  • onerous
  • thorny
  • insoluble
  • abstract
  • stubborn
  • stressful
  • troublesome
  • irksome
  • spiny
  • opaque
  • burdensome
  • problematical
  • knotty
  • hairy
  • vexatious
  • tricky
  • tight
  • ticklish
  • distressing
  • inhuman
  • cruel
  • bothersome
  • grievous
  • strict
  • stringent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • undemanding
  • light
  • soft
  • cheap
  • easy
  • mindless
  • simple
  • effortless
  • elementary
  • uncomplicated
  • smooth
  • clear
  • facile
  • gentle
  • comforting
  • soothing
  • doable
  • achievable
  • painless
  • relaxed
  • accessible
  • friendly
  • manageable
  • idiotproof
  • user-friendly
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moiling

2 of 2

verb

present participle of moil
1
as in laboring
to devote serious and sustained effort miners moiling all day in the sunless recesses of the earth

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • laboring
  • struggling
  • working
  • toiling
  • drudging
  • sweating
  • striving
  • grubbing
  • hustling
  • tugging
  • slaving
  • trying
  • endeavoring
  • plowing
  • travailing
  • humping
  • plodding
  • slogging
  • fagging
  • straining
  • banging away
  • plugging
  • sweating blood
  • digging (away)
  • scratching
  • beavering (away)
  • pegging (away)
  • trudging
  • exerting
  • attacking
  • digging in
  • wading
  • scrabbling
  • pitching in
  • driving
  • overworking
  • knuckling down
  • essaying
  • exercising
  • eking out
  • buckling (down)
  • hammering (away)
  • applying (oneself)
  • overexerting
  • putting out
  • grinding (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • slackening
  • idling
  • breaking
  • loafing
  • lazing
  • hanging (around or out)
  • easing (up)
  • lounging
  • bumming
  • chilling
  • dallying
  • shirking
  • lolling
  • resting
  • unwinding
  • letting up
  • basking
  • hacking (around)
  • goldbricking
  • relaxing
  • slacking (off)
  • hanging
  • dabbling
  • footling
  • reposing
  • trifling
  • goofing (off)
  • playing
  • dillydallying
  • doodling
  • fooling around
  • goofing (around)
  • monkeying (around)
  • puttering (around)
  • vegging out
  • hanging about
  • fribbling
  • messing around
  • pottering (around)
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2
as in churning
to be in a state of violent rolling motion the angry mob moiled around the courthouse

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • churning
  • swirling
  • seething
  • boiling
  • whirling
  • roiling
  • spinning
  • stirring
  • reeling
  • agitating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • subsiding
  • calming
  • abating
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