ENDEAVORS Synonyms: 120 Similar and Opposite Words

endeavors 1 of 2

noun

plural of endeavor

as in attempts

an effort to do or accomplish something the hope that this latest endeavor will yield much information about the atmosphere of the planet

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endeavors

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of endeavor

as in labors

to devote serious and sustained effort the trapped climber endeavored mightily to get the boulder to budge

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as in tries

to make an effort to do our club is forever endeavoring to find ways to raise more money for activities

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Noun

One of Mayer’s biggest endeavors in the past couple of years was joining forces with the film director McG to purchase the Hollywood lot that started as Charlie Chaplin’s studio and eventually became the home of A&M, then Henson Studios. — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026 Daily life is full of risk-taking endeavors such as getting behind the wheel of a car, and riding a roller coaster is strictly optional. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 As with all important endeavors, the hardest part is getting started. — Claas Mertens, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026 Russia stumbled in all three of its Phobos attempts as well as many other Mars endeavors. — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026 McNally has had many other successful endeavors, but he will always be known as the man behind Balthazar. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026 Rice is known for betting on quality in both his film and TV endeavors. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 CruiseCup brought in $100,000 that month, roughly 60% more than Satterlee had ever brought in monthly from his previous entrepreneurial endeavors, the 19-year-old says. — Megan Sauer valentina Duarte, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 Harry’s vow to invoke his mother in future charitable endeavors sits in stark contrast to older brother Prince William’s approach. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026

Verb

France and Germany are pursuing a new initiative to boost industrial provisions and protect jobs, as Europe endeavors to shield its businesses from China. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 27 July 2026 Learn New Things A proponent of waking up early, Martha endeavors to make the most of every day. — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 26 July 2026 The university office administrator who endeavors to decorate her space despite the seeming futility of coming to work at all. — Literary Hub, 14 July 2026 Planting a flag in a new location is always a momentous moment for any brand—so when a house endeavors to reposition that pennant, suddenly things feel all the more significant. — Ming Liu, Robb Report, 24 May 2026 Now, as soon as late summer, will come a digital lookalike that endeavors to extend that legacy further, interacting with fans in the US and UK in multiple languages and responding to them individually in real time while appearing to make eye contact. — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 Curate for a Wide Range of Audience Members Despite its moniker, the festival endeavors to program for a wide array of potential movie-goers. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2026 Unable to fix Caroline's problems, Linda endeavors to solve one of her own. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026 Princess Kate is patron of Family Action, a national charity that endeavors to help children and families recover from trauma. — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for endeavors

Noun

Last weekend in Highland, Michigan, Rogers dismissed El-Sayed's attempts to whittle away at his GOP base of support.

— Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Proposition 132 attempts to address these concerns by stiffening legal penalties.

— Joshua Barocas, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of attempts

Verb

Thoroughly unimpressed by her suburban idyll, and evidently unmoved by her responsibilities as wife and mother, Denise labors in her basement on a novel whose protagonist wishes to forsake her family for a life in New York.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
Every man and woman who labors in the construction industry deserves that.

— Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 5 Mar. 2026

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Verb

But none of that martial-arts mayhem is as compelling as the battle being waged behind the scenes as director Kitao Sakurai tries to insert his irreverent, ironic approach into a property resistant to that kind of impish goofing around.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
In the Strait of Hormuz, at least nine tankers and cargo ships have come under attack since Sunday as Iran tries to choke off oil exports through the waterway.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tries

Verb

As energy supply struggles to keep pace with demand, those delays have drawn political attention and, finally, action, including significant legislation passed at the state level and a new bipartisan permitting reform bill proposed in the Senate.

— Dr. Sarah Kapnick, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Toxic haze has covered parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for weeks as Jakarta struggles to contain fires that have scorched large tracts of Borneo and Sumatra, with the smoke drifting across the region.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of struggles

Verb

In so doing, the tradition could achieve for ASL what the word of the year strives to achieve for English.

— New York Times, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Said soup is being attended to by at least four cooks, as Hal (with helpful coaching by an off-camera Kate) strives to explain himself to Grace back at the embassy, and then the two of them work to get Eidra on-side.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of strives

Verb

In Bellorado-Samuels’s own bedroom, the television is stashed under the bed and works by Barkley Hendricks, Sadie Barnett, and Charisse Pearlina Weston take pride of place.

— Sean Santiago, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery works by offloading shader compilation for different hardware combinations to the cloud.

— Tom Warren, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2026

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