Synonyms of the word endeavour


ENDEAVOURACTIVITY - ASSAY - ATTEMPT - EFFORT - ENDEAVOR - ENTERPRISE - ESSAY - LABOR - PROJECT - SEEK - STRIVE - TASK - TRY - UNDERTAKING

endeavour

  • n. British standard spelling of endeavor.
  • v. British standard spelling of endeavor.

activity

  • n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
  • n. Something done as an action or a movement.
  • n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
  • n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

assay

  • n. Trial, attempt, essay.
  • n. Examination and determination; test.
  • n. The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
  • n. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
  • n. Tested purity or value.
  • n. The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially,…
  • n. The alloy or metal to be assayed.
  • v. (transitive) To attempt (something).
  • v. (archaic, intransitive) To try, attempt (to do something).
  • v. (transitive) To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.
  • v. To affect.
  • v. To try tasting, as food or drink.

attempt

  • v. To try.
  • v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
  • v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
  • v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
  • n. The action of trying at something.
  • n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

effort

  • n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
  • n. An endeavour.
  • n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
  • v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

endeavor

  • n. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
  • n. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
  • v. (obsolete) To exert oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
  • v. To work with purpose.

enterprise

  • n. A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
  • n. An undertaking or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
  • n. A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
  • n. An active participation in projects.
  • v. (intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
  • v. (transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
  • v. (transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

essay

  • n. A written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject.
  • n. (obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.
  • n. (now rare) An attempt.
  • v. (dated, transitive) To try.
  • v. (intransitive) To move forth, as into battle.

labor

  • n. American standard spelling of labour.
  • v. American standard spelling of labour.

project

  • n. A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
  • n. (usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
  • n. (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
  • n. (obsolete) A projectile.
  • n. (obsolete) A projection.
  • n. (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
  • v. (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
  • v. (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
  • v. (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
  • v. (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
  • v. (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own…
  • v. (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

seek

  • v. (transitive) To try to find, to look for, to search.
  • v. (transitive) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
  • v. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
  • v. (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

strive

  • v. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
  • v. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
  • v. To vie; to compete as a rival.
  • n. (obsolete) An effort; a striving.
  • n. (obsolete) strife; contention.

task

  • n. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
  • n. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
  • n. An objective.
  • n. (computing) A process or execution of a program.
  • v. (transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
  • v. (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
  • v. (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.

try

  • v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
  • v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
  • v. To test, to work out.
  • v. To experiment, to strive.
  • v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
  • v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
  • v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. An act of tasting or sampling.
  • n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
  • n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
  • n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
  • adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

undertaking

  • n. The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
  • n. A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
  • n. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform;…
  • n. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business.
  • v. present participle of undertake.

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