labor strain strive struggle to lean against Synonyms for nixor contendo – cast, compete, contrast, hasten, maintain, shoot, strive, struggle, to assert, to compare, to contend dimico – struggle, to contend intendo – aim, aim at, direct, direct one's course, strain, to extend, to stretch, try to prove labor – distress, exertion, fatigue, glide, hardip, hardship, labor, slide, slip away, to sink, to slip, toil, work laboris – labor, toil, work molior – construct, contrive, erect, strive, struggle, struggle alone, to attempt, to build, toil negotium – business, employment, labor, occupation, pains, pursuit, task nixus – effort, strain opera – labor, pains, work operis – building, completed work, labor, work, work done operor – do, labor, take pains, to be active, to work, toil opus – building, completed work, deed, labor, work, work done sudo – labor, sweat, to toil Similar to nixor nimis – excessively, overmuch, too much niger – black nitidus – bright, fat, flowering, shining, sleek nitor – brightness, brillance, brilliance, depend upon, elegance, exert oneself, glow, lean, make an effort, persevere, splendor, support oneself, to endeavor, to rest, to strive, trust in nisus – endeavor, exertion nitida – glittering nisi – except, if not, unless