Pleasure and Work

Opposite meaning words

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

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Work is an antonym for pleasure in delight topic.

Work noun - A literary, musical, or artistic production.

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Pleasure is an antonym for work.

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

good	good pleasure	good work
physical	physical pleasure	physical work
particular	particular pleasure	particular work
similar	similar pleasure	similar work
Other adjectives: true, actual, real, great, little, extra, last, greatest.

Used and subverted in Kiln People by David Brin, in which people download their personalities into short-lived clay golems which they use for work and pleasure.

Source: Immortal Life Is Cheap
In Relax, another work by the same author, Klee, a prostitute is shown as taking quite a lot of pleasure in her work.

Source: All Women Are Lustful
He gets some sadistic pleasure out of the fact that mere mortals really don't like his chaos, but for the most part he just ignores their griping in favor of detail work on his World of Chaos.

Source: Mad God

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