Synonyms for work
Another word for work is piece of work, employment or study. Below are 24 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: worked.
1. noun: activity directed toward making or doing something
2. noun: a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- piece of work
3. noun: the occupation for which you are paid
- employment synonyms
4. noun: applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
5. noun: (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of t
6. noun: a place where work is done
- workplace
7. noun: the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
- body of work
- oeuvre
8. verb: exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- do work
Antonyms
- idle synonyms
9. verb: be employed
- do work
- put to work
10. verb: have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- act synonyms
- make for
- play synonyms
- bring synonyms
- wreak
11. verb: perform as expected when applied
- go synonyms
- run synonyms
- function synonyms
- operate synonyms
12. verb: shape, form, or improve a material
- work on synonyms
- process synonyms
- form synonyms
- shape synonyms
- forge synonyms
- mold synonyms
- mould synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- make-work
- care synonyms
- job synonyms
- service synonyms
- action synonyms
- project synonyms
- social service
- attention synonyms
- operation synonyms
- mission synonyms
- activity synonyms
- labor synonyms
- aid synonyms
- investigation
- duty synonyms
- production synonyms
- follow-up synonyms
- product synonyms
- work in progress
- publication
- masterpiece
- woodwork
- wicker
- followup
- handiwork
- handicraft
- workpiece
- metalwork
- caning
- polychrome
Work in word games
- Letters
- 4
- Scrabble
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 11
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- Everyday word
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Questions people ask
What is another word for work?
You can say piece of work, employment, study, workplace or body of work instead of work. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "activity directed toward making or doing something".
What is the opposite of work?
The opposite of work is idle.
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