fagging

The word “fagging” has 2 syllables: fag-ging

It's pronounced as /ˈfæɡɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for fagging?

In the thesaurus, “fagging” has 64 synonyms and 36 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fagging along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for fagging

  • attacking
  • banging away
  • breaking
  • burning out
  • busting
  • debilitating
  • digging in
  • doing in
  • doing up
  • draining
  • driving
  • drudging
  • eking out
  • endeavoring
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • essaying
  • exercising
  • exerting
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • frazzling
  • grubbing
  • harassing
  • humping
  • hustling
  • killing
  • knocking out
  • knuckling down
  • laboring
  • moiling
  • outwearing
  • overexerting
  • overworking
  • pitching in
  • plodding
  • plowing
  • plugging
  • putting out
  • sapping
  • scrabbling
  • scratching
  • slaving
  • slogging
  • straining
  • striving
  • struggling
  • sweating
  • sweating blood
  • tiring
  • toiling
  • travailing
  • trudging
  • trying
  • tugging
  • wading
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • wearying
  • working

Antonyms for fagging

  • activating
  • basking
  • breaking
  • bumming
  • chilling
  • dabbling
  • dallying
  • dillydallying
  • doodling
  • energizing
  • fooling around
  • footling
  • fribbling
  • goldbricking
  • hanging
  • hanging about
  • idling
  • invigorating
  • lazing
  • letting up
  • loafing
  • lolling
  • lounging
  • messing around
  • playing
  • rejuvenating
  • relaxing
  • reposing
  • resting
  • shirking
  • slackening
  • strengthening
  • trifling
  • unwinding
  • vegging out
  • vitalizing

Meanings of fagging

  • verb
    1. (used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
    2. To droop; to tire.
    3. For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
    4. To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
    5. To work hard, especially on menial chores.
  • noun
    1. The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.

Example Sentences

  • After a long day of hiking, I usually find myself fagging out and ready for a good night's rest.
  • Hours of studying for exams left me fagging out by the time midnight rolled around.
  • The intense workout session at the gym had everyone fagging out but feeling accomplished.
  • We spent the entire day at the theme park, and by evening, we were all fagging out from the excitement.
  • The energy of the music festival kept us going for hours, but eventually, we started fagging out and sought a quiet spot to relax.

On this page you'll find 100 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fagging, such as: activating, attacking, banging away, basking, breaking, bumming, burning out.

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Related Words

banging away

  • attacking
  • digging in
  • driving
  • drudging
  • eking out
  • endeavoring
  • essaying
  • exercising
  • exerting
  • fagging
  • grubbing
  • humping
  • hustling
  • knuckling down
  • laboring
  • moiling
  • overexerting
  • overworking
  • pitching in
  • plodding
  • plowing
  • plugging
  • putting out
  • scrabbling
  • scratching
  • slaving
  • slogging
  • straining
  • striving
  • struggling
  • sweating
  • sweating blood
  • toiling
  • travailing
  • trudging
  • trying
  • tugging
  • wading
  • working

exhausting

  • Augean
  • abating
  • absorbing
  • abstract
  • abstruse
  • abundant
  • accurate
  • annoying
  • arduous
  • backbreaking
  • bankrupting
  • blow-by-blow
  • blowing
  • bothersome
  • breaking
  • bruising
  • brutal
  • burdensome
  • burning
  • burning out
  • busting
  • challenging
  • circumstantial
  • complete
  • complex
  • complicated
  • comprehensive
  • consuming
  • copious
  • correct
  • crippling
  • cruel
  • de-escalating
  • debilitating
  • decreasing
  • delineated
  • demanding
  • depleting
  • descriptive
  • detailed
  • devouring
  • difficult
  • diminishing
  • disabling
  • dissipating
  • distinct
  • distressing
  • doing in
  • doing up
  • downsizing
  • draining
  • drawing down
  • drying up
  • dwindling
  • eating
  • effortful
  • elaborate
  • elusive
  • emptying
  • encyclopedic
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • entire
  • enumerated
  • exact
  • exacting
  • exhaustive
  • expending
  • explicit
  • fagging
  • fatiguing
  • formidable
  • frazzling
  • full
  • graphic
  • graphical
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • guzzling
  • hairy
  • harassing
  • hard
  • heavy
  • hellacious
  • herculean
  • impoverishing
  • in-depth
  • inclusionary
  • inclusive
  • inhuman
  • insoluble
  • intricate
  • inventoried
  • involved
  • irksome
  • itemized
  • killer
  • killing
  • knocking out
  • knotty
  • labored
  • laborious
  • lavishing
  • lessening
  • listed
  • lowering
  • minute
  • misspending
  • moiling
  • murderous
  • numerated
  • omnibus
  • onerous
  • opaque
  • oppressive
  • outwearing
  • painful
  • panoramic
  • particular
  • particularized
  • pick-and-shovel
  • picturesque
  • playing out
  • precise
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • recondite
  • reducing
  • replete
  • rigorous
  • rough
  • rugged
  • running out of
  • running through
  • sapping
  • serious
  • severe
  • sharp
  • specific
  • specified
  • spending
  • spiny
  • squandering
  • stiff
  • strenuous
  • stressful
  • strict
  • stringent
  • stubborn
  • sweaty
  • tall
  • taxing
  • testing
  • thorny
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • throwing away
  • ticklish
  • tight
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • tricky
  • troublesome
  • trying
  • undermining
  • uphill
  • using
  • using up
  • vexatious
  • vivid
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • wearying

jading

  • annoying
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • burning out
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cumbersome
  • debilitating
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • disabling
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • doing in
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fagging
  • fatiguing
  • flat
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • inanimate
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • mind-numbing
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • putting to sleep
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • washing out
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying

killing

  • abbreviating
  • alluring
  • amusing
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • antic
  • arduous
  • arresting
  • assassinating
  • assassination
  • beckoning
  • beguiling
  • bewitching
  • blackballing
  • blacking out
  • blacklisting
  • bleeping
  • blipping
  • blithesome
  • bloodbath
  • bloodletting
  • bloodshed
  • blotting out
  • blue-penciling
  • bottom line
  • bowdlerizing
  • braking
  • breaking
  • bump off
  • bumping off
  • burdensome
  • burning out
  • busting
  • butchering
  • butchery
  • campy
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • capital punishment
  • captivating
  • carnage
  • carrying off
  • censoring
  • challenging
  • charming
  • chocking
  • chucklesome
  • claiming
  • cleanup
  • clipping
  • clownish
  • comedic
  • comic
  • comical
  • compensation
  • courting
  • croaking
  • cropping
  • cutting
  • cutting down
  • cutting off
  • deactivating
  • death
  • debilitating
  • decimating
  • decimation
  • declining
  • deleing
  • deleting
  • delighting
  • demanding
  • demolishing
  • destroying
  • destruction
  • devastation
  • difficult
  • disallowing
  • disapproving
  • disarming
  • dismantling
  • dismissing
  • dispatching
  • diverting
  • doing away with
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • doing up
  • downing
  • draining
  • drawing
  • drawing up
  • droll
  • earnings
  • effacing
  • eliding
  • emolument
  • enchanting
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • enrapturing
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • entrancing
  • eradicating
  • eradication
  • erasing
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • excising
  • executing
  • execution
  • exhausting
  • expunging
  • expurgating
  • extermination
  • facetious
  • fagging
  • farcical
  • fascinating
  • fatiguing
  • felling
  • finishing
  • flip
  • flippant
  • formidable
  • foul play
  • frazzling
  • funny
  • gain
  • genocide
  • getting
  • gleeful
  • gratifying
  • gross
  • grueling
  • gruelling
  • halting
  • harassing
  • hard
  • herculean
  • hilarious
  • holocaust
  • homicide
  • humoristic
  • humorous
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icing
  • income
  • interest
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • inviting
  • jamming
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • jokey
  • joky
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • killing off
  • knockabout
  • knocking off
  • knocking out
  • laborious
  • laughable
  • laughing
  • laundering
  • lucre
  • ludicrous
  • luring
  • mad
  • magnetizing
  • making away with
  • manslaughter
  • martyring
  • massacre
  • massacring
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mortality
  • mothballing
  • mowing
  • murder
  • murdering
  • negativing
  • net
  • neutralizing
  • nixing
  • obliterating
  • offing
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • outwearing
  • pay
  • payment
  • payoff
  • persnickety
  • pert
  • phasing out
  • playful
  • pleasing
  • pogrom
  • priceless
  • proceeds
  • profit
  • pulling
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • red-penciling
  • redacting
  • refusing
  • remittal
  • removing
  • repressing
  • requital
  • revenue
  • rich
  • ridiculous
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • riotous
  • risible
  • rough
  • rubbing out
  • rugged
  • salary
  • sales
  • sapping
  • scragging
  • screaming
  • seducing
  • severe
  • shooting down
  • shortening
  • shutting off
  • sidesplitting
  • silencing
  • slapstick
  • slapsticky
  • slaughter
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • smart
  • smart-aleck
  • smart-alecky
  • smiting
  • snickery
  • snuffing
  • soliciting
  • stalling
  • stern
  • sticking
  • stiff
  • strenuous
  • strict
  • stringent
  • suiciding
  • suppressing
  • taking
  • taking out
  • taxing
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • testing
  • tiring
  • toilsome
  • tough
  • trying
  • turning off
  • uproarious
  • vetoing
  • wages
  • waggish
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearing to a frazzle
  • wearying
  • whacking
  • whimsical
  • wiling
  • windfall
  • wiping out
  • witching
  • witty
  • wooing
  • wry
  • yield
  • zany

laboring

  • active
  • alive
  • at it
  • at work
  • attacking
  • banging away
  • belaboring
  • brooding
  • busy
  • clocked in
  • clocked in punched in
  • digging in
  • driving
  • drudging
  • dynamic
  • effective
  • eking out
  • employed
  • endeavoring
  • engaged
  • essaying
  • exercising
  • exerting
  • fagging
  • functioning
  • going
  • grubbing
  • harping
  • hired
  • hot
  • humping
  • hustling
  • in a job
  • in collar
  • in force
  • in full swing
  • in gear
  • in harness
  • in place
  • in process
  • inked
  • knuckling down
  • live
  • moiling
  • moving
  • obliged
  • occupied
  • on board
  • on duty
  • on fire
  • on the job
  • on the payroll
  • on track
  • operating
  • operative
  • overexerting
  • overworking
  • pitching in
  • plodding
  • plowing
  • plugging
  • plugging away
  • practical
  • punched in
  • putting out
  • retained
  • running
  • scrabbling
  • scratching
  • selected
  • signed
  • slaving
  • slogging
  • straining
  • striving
  • struggling
  • sweating
  • sweating blood
  • toiling
  • travailing
  • trudging
  • trying
  • tugging
  • useful
  • viable
  • wading
  • working

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