Career
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English
Noun
Career (plural Careers)- One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
- An individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.
- (archaic) speed
- A jouster's path during a joust.
- (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
Verb
Career (third-person singular simple present Careers, present participle Careering, simple past and past participle Careered)
- To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way
Adjectives for Career
decent; brilliant; military; creative; sterile; medical; hard-working; subsequent; honorable; prosperous; notable; checkered; literary; wasted; remarkable; tremulous; serene; cinematic; philanthropic; ill-starred; unblemished; generous; victorious; adequate kind; unsentimental; stormy; eventual buoyant; editorial; distinguished; definite uninterrupted; artistic; academical; parliamentary; changed; rough; terrible; desperate; horrible; riotous; laboring; dignified; forceful; wandering; martial; theatrical; inglorious; unwearied; conjugal; pale; rollicking; joyous; diplomatic; coarse; low anti-social; recognized; remorseless; official political; placid; dazzling; wild; agitated tragic; unscrupulous; clerical; independent legal; triumphant; mercantile; honest; professional; obscure; shameful; disastrous; unadvanced; unswerving; irresistible; journalistic; heavenly; active; normal; marvelous; termagant; bloody; picturesque; celibate; hapless; saintly; inspiring; fluctuating; celebrated; astonishing; story-book; startling; extraordinary; exceptional; amazing; incredible; meteoric; budding; illustrious; clean; vivid; noted; imposing; sensible; fine; assured; magnificent; promising; serious; versatile; invincible; famous; portentous; spectacular; dramatic; sensational; eventful; colorful; breathless; adventure-some; exciting; arduous; quick; tempestuous; mad; extravagant; challenging; tumultuous; controversial; erratic; servile; turbulent; disturbed; revolutionary; happy; rollicking; blithe; disappointing; lonely; hopeless; lively; active; busy; vicious; infamous; strange; tormented; brutal; enigmatic; sea-faring; forensic; golfing; burdened; money-making; pleasurable; public; scholastic; college; peripatetic; discomforting; scientific; posthumous; brief; true; indecorous; sufficient; chosen; diverging; material; limited; glittering; fixed; fortuitous; penitential ; subsequent; prone.
Verbs for Career
achieve—; aspire to—; blast—; carve out—; checker—; close—; commence—; crown—; date—; embark on—; embrace—; endanger—; enter upon—; enthrall by—; further—; jeopardize—; litter—; mar—; mark—; pursue—; renounce—; smash—; stunt—; terminate—; unfold—; wreck—.
Synonyms for Career
progress, way, course, walk, pursuit, line, sphere, business, experience, occupation, profession, location, calling.
Antonyms for Career
torpor, inactivity, idleness, inaction, sloth, inertia, indolence, stupor.
Related terms
Thesaurus
occupation, ongoing, onrush, onward course, pace, passage, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge, plunging, post, practice, practiced, prepared, primed, profession, professional, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, pursuit, race, racket, radial motion, random motion, rate, reel, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, retrogression, rising, rock, roll, rolling, rolling on, run, rush, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, seethe, set, shoot, sideward motion, sinking, skedaddle, skilled, soaring, specialization, specialty, speed, stagger, step, step on it, sternway, stream, stride, struggle, stumble, subsiding, sway, swing, tear, technical, thrash about, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, trade, trained, traject, trajet, travel, tread, trend, tumble, upward motion, vocation, walk, walk of life, wallop, wallow, way, welter, work, zoom, accomplished, advance, advancement, advancing, angular motion, art, ascending, ascent, at concert pitch, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backward motion, blunder, bolt, business, calling, careen, career building, careerism, chase, climbing, clip, coached, conversant, course, craft, current, dart, dash, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebbing, employment, falter, finished, flight, fling, flounce, flounder, flow, flux, fly, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, furtherance, furthering, gait, game, go-ahead, handicraft, haste, hasten, headway, hie, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, initiate, initiated, job, labor, lick, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, livelihood, lurch, make haste, march, metier, mission, mounting, mystery, number, oblique motion,
