Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

striving

/ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables: striv-ing
IPA: /ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of strive

noun

Effort; the act of one who strives.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]"
"Sexual virility, coital potency rides high and arrogant over the commercial, artistic, social strivings of contemporary society[.]"
"Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?"

Usage

Inflected Forms

strivings (plural)

Synonyms

nisus pains strain

Rhymes With

driving arriving surviving diving thriving reviving depriving deriving conniving jiving dumpster diving piledriving

Questions

How do you pronounce striving?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/.
What does striving mean?: present participle and gerund of strive

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