Fun and Labor

Fun

Fun noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.
Usage example: came outside to where we were playing touch football and joined the fun

Labor is an antonym for fun in amusement topic.

Labor

Labor noun - Very hard or unpleasant work.
Usage example: a political dissident forced to do six months of hard labor in the salt mines as punishment

Fun is an antonym for labor in topics: work, childbirth process.

Nearby Words: labour, labored, laboured, laborer, labourer

Both words in one sentence

  • They complained that Macherot depicted, in stories for children, terrorist attacks on a King, fun presumably made of labor unions, and a woman wearing hair curlers.
  • Literature / Tortall Universe aka: Tortall Punishments are harsh and include forced labor, maiming, and boiling in oil, just in case you thought medieval times were fun and romantic.
  • Televised Torture Then there is the rare breed of villain who prefers to think of him or herself as "above" the common labor of applying crushing physical or psychological agony personally for fear it might put a nick in their nails —- and besides, watching is just a lot more fun.
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