Synonyms of hustling

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adjective

as in driving

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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2

as in hurrying

to proceed or move quickly

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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