Labor and Pleasure

Opposite meaning words

Labor noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.

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Pleasure is an antonym for labor.

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

Pleasure noun - The feeling experienced when one's wishes are met.

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Labor is an antonym for pleasure in delight topic.

Baleful Polymorph: The boys in Pleasure Island turn into jackasses and get forced into labor.

Source: Disney / Pinocchio
Pinocchio has the infamous Pleasure Island sequence where Lampwick the wayward bad boy slowly turns into a donkey as did all of the other bad boys lured onto the island to be sold into labor.

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However, he is horrified at the Coachman's proposition of sending kids off to Pleasure Island where they will be robbed of their humanity and forced into slavery doomed to hard labor for the rest of their lives.

Source: Even Evil Has Standards / Film

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