struggling

/ˈstrʌɡəlɪŋ/

verbadjectivestrug · gling

Think: you STRUG to get through, then you keep GOING—STRUG + GLING = struggling.

Yes, it's struggling. Don’t drop the second “g”: it’s strug + gling (…ggl…), not *strugling*.

Definitions

  1. verbpresent participle of struggle; trying very hard to do something difficult or to deal with a problem.
  2. verbfighting or moving with difficulty; making forceful efforts to get free or make progress.
  3. adjectivehaving difficulty; not succeeding or not doing well (often financially or academically).

Examples

  • “She is struggling to finish her science project on time.”
  • “The swimmer was struggling against the strong current.”
  • “After the storm, the struggling business needed help to reopen.”

Synonyms

strivingbattlingtoilingwrestlinglaboring

Antonyms

succeedingthriving

Translations

ES luchando / esforzándosePT lutando / se esforçandoFR luttant / ayant du mal

Common misspellings

struglingstrugglinggstruggelingstrugglngstruglinggstrugglinstruggleng

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