- drudgery
- noun (plural -eries) Date: 1550 dull, irksome, and fatiguing work ; uninspiring or menial labor Synonyms: see work
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Drudgery — Drudg er*y, n. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. [1913 Webster] The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
drudgery — index work (effort) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
drudgery — 1540s, from DRUDGE (Cf. drudge) + ERY (Cf. ery) … Etymology dictionary
drudgery — toil, travail, labor, *work, grind Analogous words: exertion, *effort, pains, trouble … New Dictionary of Synonyms
drudgery — [n] hard, tedious work backbreaker*, chore, daily grind*, elbow grease*, grind*, gruntwork*, labor, menial labor, rat race, slavery, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, workout; concept 362 Ant. snap … New thesaurus
drudgery — ► NOUN ▪ hard, menial, or dull work … English terms dictionary
drudgery — [druj′ər ē] n. pl. drudgeries [see DRUDGE & ERY] work that is hard, menial, or tiresome … English World dictionary
drudgery — n. sheer drudgery * * * [ drʌdʒərɪ] sheer drudgery … Combinatory dictionary
drudgery — [[t]drʌ̱ʤəri[/t]] N UNCOUNT You use drudgery to refer to jobs and tasks which are boring or unpleasant but which must be done. People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives … English dictionary
drudgery — noun tedious, menial and exhausting work we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence … Wiktionary
drudgery — noun she swore her daughters would never be condemned to a life of drudgery Syn: hard work, menial work, donkey work, toil, labor; chores See note at labor … Thesaurus of popular words
