Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb struggle

4 senses of struggle

Sense 1
fight, struggle -- (make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath")
       => try, seek, attempt, essay, assay -- (make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world")

Sense 2
struggle -- (to exert strenuous effort against opposition; "he struggled to get free from the rope")
       => endeavor, endeavour, strive -- (attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy")

Sense 3
clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter -- (climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling)
       => climb -- (move with difficulty, by grasping)

Sense 4
contend, fight, struggle -- (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"; "Militant groups are contending for control of the country")

Antonyms of adj struggling

1 sense of struggling

Sense 1
struggling -- (engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists")

INDIRECT (VIA troubled) -> untroubled -- (not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress; "seemed untroubled by doubts of any kind"; "untroubled sleep"; "a kind untroubled face")

Similarity of adj struggling

1 sense of struggling

Sense 1
struggling -- (engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists")
       => troubled (vs. untroubled) -- (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers")