Synonyms:
| achievement, | doing, | labor, | product, |
| action, | drudgery, | occupation, | production, |
| business, | employment, | performance, | toil. |
| deed, | exertion. |
Work is the generic term for any continuous application of energy toward an end; work may be hard or easy. Labor is hard and wearying work; toil is straining and exhausting work. Work is also used for any result of working, physical or mental, and has special senses, as in mechanics, which labor and toil do not share. Drudgery is plodding, irksome, and often menial work. Compare [ACT]; [BUSINESS].
Antonyms:
| ease, | idleness, | leisure, | recreation, | relaxation, | repose, | rest, | vacation. |
YET.
Synonyms:
| besides, | further, | hitherto, | now, | still, | thus far. |
Yet and still have many closely related senses, and, with verbs of past time, are often interchangeable; we may say "while he was yet a child," or "while he was still a child." Yet, like still, often applies to past action or state extending to and including the present time, especially when joined with as; we can say "he is feeble as yet," or "he is still feeble," with scarcely appreciable difference of meaning, except that the former statement implies somewhat more of expectation than the latter. Yet with a negative applies to completed action, often replacing a positive statement with still; "he is not gone yet" is nearly the same as "he is here still." Yet has a reference to the future which still does not share; "we may be successful yet" implies that success may begin at some future time; "we may be successful still" implies[375] that we may continue to enjoy in the future such success as we are winning now.