Synonyms for Trying | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "trying" (161 found)

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Closest matches (33)

Strong matches (48)

distressing draining empirical empiricism enervating enfeebling evil exacting examinational examinatorial examining exasperating exhausting exigent experimental experimentation explorational explorative exploratoryfact finding

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Noun(5 words)

effort endeavor endeavoring frustrating hardship

Related words (80)

investigatory irksome irritating killing maddening miserablenot easyonerous opposed opposing opposite oppressive painful pilot plaguey pragmatism probationary probative probatory proving

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provisional punishingr and dresearch and developmentrigorous roughrule of thumbsapping sinister sticky straining strenuous stressful superincumbent taxing tentative test testing tight tiresome tiring toilsome tough trialtrial and errortrial-and-errortricksy tricky troublesome troublous unfavorable untoward upsetting verificatory vexatious vexing weakening weariful wearing wearisome wearying weighty worrisome worrying wretched zetetic

Noun(10 words)

irritatingmake an effortordeal pilot strain tax taxing test testing trial

Adjective(3 words)

nerve-racking nerve-wracking stressful

Verb(1 words)

struggling

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

12 entries

action activity adjective challenge conditiondescriptive termdifficulty effortemotional demandevaluation experiment process

More specific

19 entries

arduous assignmentarduousnessbattery of testsburdensome taskdifficult colleaguedifficult taskexasperate experimentexperimental protocolfield testhardship irkirritating patientonerous workloadpilot studyseries of trials

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Collocations

12 entries

a trying daya trying perioda trying taskhighly tryingtrying assignmenttrying circumstancestrying conditionstrying experiencetrying periodtrying processtrying tasktrying times

Inflections

4 entries

more tryingmost tryingtried tries

Derivations

11 entries

effort endeavor retry trial tried tries try tryable tryingness tryout untried

similar

3 entries

difficult disagreeable hard

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I'm so dumb... I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.

Source: tatoeba (1497)

I was trying to kill time.

Source: tatoeba (1703)

When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true.

Source: tatoeba (1740)

Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her.

Source: tatoeba (1916)

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Trying