Synonyms of hustling

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adjective

as in driving

Synonyms & Similar Words

• driving
• diligent
• industrious
• hungry
• dynamic
• enterprising
• motivated
• eager
• venturesome
• determined
• spirited
• lively
• venturous
• impassioned
• competitive
• energetic
• aggressive
• opportunistic
• animated
• gung ho
• vigorous
• pushy
• competing
• ardent
• avid
• assertive
• raring
• rival
• high-flying
• pushing
• aspiring
• pretentious
• keen
• ambitious
• hard-driving
• overambitious
• self-assertive
• go-getting
• rivalrous
• self-seeking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• indifferent
• disinterested
• uninterested
• lackadaisical
• casual
• apathetic
• easygoing
• unexcited
• unenthusiastic
• lazy
• sluggish
• shiftless
• lethargic
• listless
• tepid
• halfhearted
• uneager
• lukewarm
• spiritless
• lazyish
• unaggressive
• unassertive
• unambitious
• ambitionless

hustling

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verb

present participle of hustle

1

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort

everyone really hustled to get the project finished on schedule

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laboring
• struggling
• striving
• working
• trying
• endeavoring
• toiling
• grubbing
• sweating
• plowing
• slaving
• tugging
• slogging
• drudging
• humping
• plugging
• plodding
• digging (away)
• straining
• moiling
• pegging (away)
• fagging
• travailing
• banging away
• attacking
• sweating blood
• driving
• beavering (away)
• applying (oneself)
• exerting
• buckling (down)
• scratching
• hammering (away)
• essaying
• exercising
• trudging
• scrabbling
• overworking
• wading
• pitching in
• digging in
• grinding (out)
• eking out
• overexerting
• knuckling down
• putting out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• breaking
• slackening
• loafing
• easing (up)
• idling
• lounging
• shirking
• chilling
• hanging (around or out)
• bumming
• resting
• lazing
• dallying
• letting up
• playing
• relaxing
• hacking (around)
• unwinding
• basking
• lolling
• goofing (off)
• hanging
• slacking (off)
• goldbricking
• reposing
• dabbling
• dillydallying
• footling
• trifling
• doodling
• fooling around
• messing around
• vegging out
• goofing (around)
• puttering (around)
• monkeying (around)
• pottering (around)
• hanging about
• fribbling

2

as in hurrying

to proceed or move quickly

we'd better hustle, or we'll miss the train

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hurrying
• travelling
• rushing
• traveling
• scurrying
• racing
• speeding
• driving
• trotting
• flying
• chasing
• zipping
• buzzing
• jumping
• running
• darting
• scooting
• blowing
• stepping
• dashing
• blasting
• bustling
• tearing
• scuttling
• ripping
• whirling
• zooming
• barreling
• shooting
• bowling
• blazing
• jogging
• bolting
• ramming
• breezing
• careering
• careening
• hurling
• rustling
• hurtling
• haring
• humping
• hastening
• motoring
• bundling
• rocketing
• whisking
• jetting
• coursing
• nipping
• pelting
• belting
• galloping
• highballing
• barrelling
• cracking (on)
• hieing
• bombing
• hying
• cannonballing
• flitting
• beating it
• scuffling
• scampering
• sprinting
• stepping on it
• making tracks
• hotfooting (it)
• whizzing
• getting a move on
• accelerating
• scudding
• shaking a leg
• stampeding
• streaking
• outrunning
• quickening
• overtaking
• beetling
• outpacing
• outstripping
• stepping out
• beelining
• catching up
• arrowing
• fast-forwarding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crawling
• creeping
• poking
• dragging
• lingering
• hanging (around or out)
• lagging
• poking
• loitering
• dawdling
• strolling
• shuffling
• sauntering
• ambling
• dallying
• plodding
• lumbering
• tarrying
• slowing (down or up)
• dillydallying
• decelerating

3

as in squeezing

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

a swindler who hustled cashiers by getting them all confused while they were making change

Synonyms & Similar Words

• squeezing
• cheating
• plucking
• stinging
• sticking
• beating
• screwing
• doing
• swindling
• bleeding
• defrauding
• rooking
• deceiving
• fleecing
• tricking
• chiseling
• shortchanging
• victimizing
• fiddling
• conning
• bilking
• mulcting
• chiselling
• suckering
• diddling
• exploiting
• gaffing
• stiffing
• reaming
• shorting
• fooling
• hosing
• skinning
• shaking down
• cozening
• extorting
• ripping off
• euchring
• flimflamming
• nobbling
• betraying
• chousing
• thimblerigging
• taking for a ride
• doing in
• wrenching
• taking to the cleaners
• clipping
• gouging
• skunking
• milking
• nicking
• soaking
• wringing
• overcharging
• gulling
• selling a bill of goods to
• wresting
• duping
• bitching
• double-crossing
• fast-talking
• bamboozling
• roping (in)