Rest and Struggling

Rest

Rest verb - To refrain from labor or exertion.

Struggling is an antonym for rest.

Nearby Words: restless, rested, restive, resting, restful

Struggling

Struggling adjective - Engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity.

Rest is an antonym for struggling in topics: fight, labor.

Nearby Words: struggle, struggled

Both words in one sentence

  • For half a millennium, those colonies, young and struggling when last heard from, had had no contact with the rest of Humanity.
    Source: Lost Colony
  • The rest of the movie deals with their struggling with and eventually rejecting their bigotry.
  • Vomit Discretion Shot After struggling with the possessed candy for a while, he starts eating it to scare the rest off.
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