Trying
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English
Verb
trying
- Present participle of try.
Adjective
Trying (comparative more Trying, superlative most Trying)
- Difficult to endure; arduous
- irritating, stressful or bothersome
Thesaurus
adverse, analytic, annoying, antagonistic, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, burdensome, conflicting, contrary, counter, counteractive, crushing, cut-and-try, demanding, detrimental, devitalizing, difficult, dispiriting, disquieting, distressing, draining, empirical, enervating, enfeebling, exacting, examinational, examinatorial, examining, exasperating, exhausting, exigent, experimental, explorational, explorative, exploratory, fact-finding, fatiguesome, fatiguing, feeling, frustrating, groping, grueling, hard, harmful, heavy, hefty, heuristic, hit-or-miss, hostile, in opposition, indagative, infuriating, inimical, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory, irksome, irritating, killing, maddening, miserable, not easy, onerous, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppressive, painful, pilot, plaguey, probationary, probative, probatory, proving, provisional, punishing, rigorous, rough, sapping, sinister, sticky, straining, strenuous, stressful, superincumbent, taxing, tentative, test, testing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tough, trial, trial-and-error, tricksy, tricky, troublesome, troublous, unfavorable, untoward, upsetting, verificatory, vexatious, vexing, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty, worrisome, worrying, wretched, zetetic
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Statistics
- Most common English words before 1923: that's · Christian · food · #746: trying · states · wished · school
