Definition of Struggling

1. Adjective. Engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity. "Struggling artists"

Similar to: Troubled

Definition of Struggling

1. Verb. (present participle of struggle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Struggling

1. struggle [v] - See also: struggle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Struggling

structuring
structurist
structurists
structurization
structurize
strude
strudel
strudels
strudes
struggle
struggle-buggy
struggled
struggler
strugglers
struggles
struggling
strugglingly
strull
strulls
strum
struma
strumae
strumas
strumatic
strumbled
strummed
strummel
strummels
strummer
strummers

Literary usage of Struggling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report (1911)
"list, are struggling with the problem of repairing their church with little money as yet on hand. The evangelists and their wives need our sympathy and ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It has carried many a struggling producer over early years of hardship, and probably saved his property for his family when under other circumstances it ..."

3. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"sufficed to show that the enclosure belonged to some needy Frenchman living in a country not his own, and struggling probably with the ordinary evils of ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Annie was struggling between laughter and tears ; but she gathered up all her courage. " I must say I feel rather shaken," answered the strong Rhoda. ..."

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