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Trying vs Struggling - What's the difference?

trying | struggling |

As verbs the difference between trying and struggling

is that trying is present participle of lang=en while struggling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between trying and struggling

is that trying is the act by which one tries something; an attempt while struggling is the act of one who struggles.

As an adjective trying

is difficult to endure; arduous.

trying

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Difficult to endure; arduous.
  • *1891 , Conan Doyle,
  • *:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
  • Irritating, stressful or bothersome.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
  • * 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
    • In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.

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    struggling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who struggles.
  • * 1848 , Orville Dewey, Discourses on the Nature of Religion
    • All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.