STRIVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does striving mean? 

• STRIVING (noun)
  The noun STRIVING has 1 sense:

1. an effortful attempt to attain a goal

  Familiarity information: STRIVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An effortful attempt to attain a goal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

nisus; pains; strain; striving

Hypernyms ("striving" is a kind of...):

attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "striving"):

jehad; jihad (a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal)

Derivation:

strive (attempt by employing effort)

 Context examples 

You are not striving to look taller than any body else.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Don’t you see? How can two particles of the yeast wrong each other by striving to devour each other?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He stared now at the stranger with a wrinkled brow and the air of a man who is striving to stir his memory.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man who, but three months before, had been almost an angel of light.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But he passed it by as without merit, in Her eyes, and dwelt long and thoughtfully on the high, square forehead,—striving to penetrate it and learn the quality of its content.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Scientists are still striving for a solid theoretical understanding of how gas being pulled into black holes creates outflowing jets.

(The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole, NASA)

His head was thrown a little back, and he had both hands up to the collar of his shirt, as though he were striving to undo it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Saturn will toughen you up and teach you the value of striving for excellence.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)