perseverance

The word “perseverance” has 4 syllables: per-se-ver-ance

It's pronounced as /ˌpɜː.sɪˈvɪə.rəns/


What is synonym and antonym for perseverance?

In the thesaurus, “perseverance” has 53 synonyms and 23 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for perseverance

  • alacrity
  • backbone
  • certainty
  • certitude
  • confidence
  • constancy
  • continuance
  • decidedness
  • decision
  • decisiveness
  • dedication
  • determination
  • determinedness
  • doggedness
  • drive
  • eagerness
  • endurance
  • firmness
  • follow through
  • fortitude
  • gameness
  • granite
  • grit
  • guts
  • immovability
  • indefatigability
  • iron
  • moxie
  • obduracy
  • obdurateness
  • obstinacy
  • obstinateness
  • persistence
  • persistency
  • pertinacity
  • pluck
  • prolonging
  • purposefulness
  • pursuance
  • readiness
  • resoluteness
  • resolution
  • resolve
  • sand
  • sedulity
  • spunk
  • stamina
  • steadfastness
  • stick-to-itiveness
  • stubbornness
  • sureness
  • tenaciousness
  • tenacity

Antonyms for perseverance

  • apathy
  • aversion
  • cowardice
  • disinclination
  • doubt
  • hesitation
  • idleness
  • incertitude
  • indecision
  • indecisiveness
  • indetermination
  • indifference
  • indisposition
  • indolence
  • irresoluteness
  • irresolution
  • laziness
  • lethargy
  • reluctance
  • uncertainty
  • unwillingness
  • vacillation
  • weakness

Meanings of perseverance

  • noun
    1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

Example Sentences

  • His perseverance paid off when he finally completed the marathon.
  • Overcoming obstacles requires a great deal of perseverance and determination.
  • The scientist's perseverance led to a groundbreaking discovery.
  • With hard work and perseverance, she achieved her dream of becoming a doctor.
  • The team demonstrated incredible perseverance in the face of numerous challenges during the competition.

On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to perseverance, such as: alacrity, apathy, aversion, backbone, certainty, certitude, confidence.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

valor

  • arete
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • boldness
  • bottle
  • bravery
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • cojones
  • courage
  • courageousness
  • daring
  • daringness
  • dash
  • dauntlessness
  • defiance
  • derring-do
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • effrontery
  • endurance
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • fight
  • firmness
  • fortitude
  • gall
  • gallantry
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • hardihood
  • heart
  • heroism
  • indomitableness
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • invincibility
  • mettle
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • pecker
  • perseverance
  • pluck
  • pluckiness
  • prowess
  • resolution
  • sand
  • spirit
  • spunk
  • stamina
  • starch
  • stomach
  • stoutness
  • temerity
  • temper
  • tenacity
  • valiance
  • valiancy
  • virtue

painstaking

  • accurate
  • alert
  • all-out
  • application
  • assiduity
  • assiduous
  • assiduousness
  • attention
  • attentive
  • attentiveness
  • bother
  • by the book
  • by the numbers
  • care
  • careful
  • cautious
  • chary
  • circumspect
  • concentration
  • conscientious
  • conscionable
  • critical
  • deliberate
  • demanding
  • detail-oriented
  • determined
  • diligence
  • diligent
  • discriminating
  • dogged
  • doggedness
  • earnest
  • effort
  • effortfulness
  • exact
  • exacting
  • exhaustive
  • fastidious
  • finicky
  • fussbudget
  • fussy
  • gingerly
  • guarded
  • hard-working
  • heedful
  • indefatigable
  • industrious
  • industriousness
  • industry
  • intensive
  • loving
  • meticulous
  • mindful
  • observant
  • pains
  • particular
  • patient
  • perseverance
  • persevering
  • persistence
  • persnickety
  • picky
  • plodding
  • precise
  • punctilious
  • punctual
  • scrupulous
  • sedulity
  • sedulous
  • sedulousness
  • slow
  • stickler
  • strenuous
  • strict
  • studied
  • tenacious
  • tenacity
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • thoughtful
  • tireless
  • tirelessness
  • trouble
  • vigilant
  • wary
  • watchful
  • zealous

pains

  • accomplishment
  • aches
  • achievement
  • act
  • action
  • activity
  • ado
  • advertence
  • advertency
  • afflicts
  • agonizes
  • agony
  • aim
  • alertness
  • anguish
  • anguishes
  • application
  • arm
  • aspiration
  • assiduity
  • assignment
  • attempt
  • attention
  • battle
  • birth
  • birth pangs
  • bites
  • bleeds
  • bother
  • brunt
  • brush
  • burden
  • burns
  • business
  • bustle
  • calling
  • care
  • carefulness
  • caution
  • chafes
  • charge
  • childbearing
  • childbirth
  • chore
  • circumspection
  • clash
  • closeness
  • clout
  • coercion
  • combat
  • commission
  • commitment
  • committal
  • compulsion
  • concentration
  • concern
  • conflict
  • conscientiousness
  • conscription
  • consideration
  • constrait
  • contest
  • contract
  • contractions
  • crack
  • cramps
  • creation
  • daily grind
  • deed
  • delivery
  • determination
  • devoir
  • difficulty
  • diligence
  • dint
  • direction
  • discipline
  • discretion
  • discrimination
  • distress
  • draft
  • drill
  • drudge
  • drudgery
  • dues
  • duress
  • dutifulness
  • dynamism
  • effort
  • elbow grease
  • employment
  • encounter
  • endeavor
  • energy
  • enforcement
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • enthusiasm
  • essay
  • exaction
  • exactitude
  • exactness
  • exercise
  • exertion
  • expenditure
  • extortion
  • faithfulness
  • fastidiousness
  • feat
  • festers
  • fling
  • flurry
  • focus
  • force
  • forethought
  • free-for-all
  • full head of steam
  • function
  • functioning
  • fury
  • fuss
  • gingerliness
  • giving birth
  • go
  • grind
  • grindstone
  • gruntwork
  • hard pull
  • hardship
  • harrows
  • hassle
  • heed
  • heedfulness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • hook
  • horsepower
  • hurts
  • impact
  • impetus
  • impulse
  • inconvenience
  • incorruptibility
  • industry
  • intention
  • intentness
  • interest
  • inventiveness
  • irreproachability
  • irreproachableness
  • itches
  • jam
  • job
  • judiciousness
  • jump
  • labor
  • load
  • long haul
  • long pull
  • management
  • meticulosity
  • meticulousness
  • might
  • millstone
  • mindfulness
  • minding the store
  • mission
  • moil
  • momentum
  • moonlight
  • muscle
  • must
  • nags
  • need
  • nicety
  • nine-to-five
  • obligation
  • observance
  • observation
  • occupation
  • office
  • old college try
  • onus
  • operation
  • ought
  • painstaking
  • pangs
  • part
  • particularity
  • parturition
  • pass
  • patience
  • performance
  • perseverance
  • persistence
  • pinches
  • potency
  • potential
  • pother
  • pounds
  • pow
  • power
  • precaution
  • precision
  • pressure
  • product
  • production
  • province
  • prudence
  • puissance
  • pull
  • punch
  • punctiliousness
  • purpose
  • push
  • racks
  • regard
  • resolution
  • responsibility
  • rigor
  • role
  • rough-and-tumble
  • roughhouse
  • row
  • salt mines
  • scramble
  • scrupulousness
  • service
  • servitude
  • set-to
  • shot
  • sinew
  • skirmish
  • slog
  • slogging
  • smarts
  • sock
  • solicitude
  • speed
  • spurt
  • stab
  • station
  • steadfastness
  • steam
  • stimulus
  • stings
  • stint
  • strain
  • strength
  • stress
  • stretch
  • strife
  • string
  • striving
  • strong arm
  • struggle
  • stuff
  • subjection
  • suffering
  • suffers
  • sweat
  • swells
  • taking care of business
  • task
  • tension
  • thought
  • throbs
  • throes
  • tingles
  • tirelessness
  • toil
  • torments
  • tortures
  • training
  • travail
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • trust
  • try
  • tug
  • tussle
  • twinges
  • undertaking
  • uprightness
  • use
  • utilization
  • velocity
  • venture
  • veracity
  • vigilance
  • vigor
  • violence
  • wariness
  • watchfulness
  • weight
  • whack
  • what it takes
  • while
  • woe
  • work
  • worry
  • wrangle
  • zeal

obstinateness

  • adamance
  • adamancy
  • anal-retentiveness
  • assertiveness
  • balkiness
  • bloody-mindedness
  • bullheadedness
  • cantankerousness
  • contrariness
  • contumacy
  • cussedness
  • defiance
  • determination
  • disobedience
  • disorderliness
  • doggedness
  • firmness
  • fractiousness
  • frowardness
  • hardheadedness
  • hardness
  • heedlessness
  • immovability
  • immovableness
  • impetuousness
  • implacability
  • imprudence
  • impulsiveness
  • indocility
  • inexorability
  • inflexibility
  • insubordination
  • intemperanc
  • intractability
  • intractableness
  • intransigence
  • inveteracy
  • lawlessness
  • mulishness
  • narrow-mindedness
  • obduracy
  • obdurateness
  • obstinacy
  • obstinance
  • obstreperousness
  • opinionatedness
  • orneriness
  • perseverance
  • persistence
  • persistency
  • pertinaciousness
  • pertinacity
  • perverseness
  • perversity
  • pigheadedness
  • purpose
  • rebelliousness
  • recalcitrance
  • recalcitrancy
  • recklessness
  • refractoriness
  • relentlessness
  • reluctance
  • resolve
  • rigidity
  • rigidness
  • rigor
  • rigorousness
  • self-opinionatedness
  • self-will
  • single-mindedness
  • steadfastness
  • sternness
  • stick-to-itiveness
  • strictness
  • stubbornness
  • tenaciousness
  • tenacity
  • uncontrollability
  • uncontrollableness
  • ungovernableness
  • unmanageability
  • unruliness
  • untowardness
  • waywardness
  • wildness
  • willfulness
  • wrongheadedness

immovability

  • adamance
  • adamancy
  • adherence
  • aim
  • anal-retentiveness
  • aplomb
  • assurance
  • backbone
  • balance
  • balkiness
  • bloody-mindedness
  • boldness
  • bullheadedness
  • cantankerousness
  • cohesion
  • constancy
  • continuance
  • contrariness
  • contumacy
  • courage
  • cussedness
  • dauntlessness
  • decidedness
  • decision
  • declaration
  • dedication
  • defiance
  • dependability
  • determination
  • disobedience
  • doggedness
  • drive
  • durability
  • earnestness
  • endurance
  • energy
  • establishment
  • fastness
  • firmness
  • fixed purpose
  • follow through
  • fortitude
  • frowardness
  • grit
  • guts
  • hardheadedness
  • hardness
  • heart
  • immobility
  • immovableness
  • implacability
  • indefatigability
  • inexorability
  • inflexibility
  • insubordination
  • intent
  • intention
  • intractability
  • intransigence
  • inveteracy
  • judgment
  • maturity
  • mettle
  • moxie
  • mulishness
  • narrow-mindedness
  • obduracy
  • obdurateness
  • obstinacy
  • obstinateness
  • obstreperousness
  • opinionatedness
  • permanence
  • perseverance
  • persistence
  • persistency
  • pertinaciousness
  • pertinacity
  • perverseness
  • perversity
  • pigheadedness
  • pluck
  • prolonging
  • purpose
  • purposefulness
  • purposiveness
  • pursuance
  • rebelliousness
  • recalcitrance
  • recalcitrancy
  • refractoriness
  • relentlessness
  • resoluteness
  • resolution
  • resolve
  • rigidity
  • rigidness
  • rigor
  • rigorousness
  • security
  • sedulity
  • self-opinionatedness
  • self-will
  • settlement
  • sincerity
  • single-mindedness
  • solidity
  • solidness
  • soundness
  • spirit
  • spunk
  • stableness
  • stamina
  • staunchness
  • staying power
  • steadfastness
  • steadiness
  • sternness
  • stick-to-itiveness
  • strength
  • strictness
  • stubbornness
  • sturdiness
  • substantiality
  • support
  • sureness
  • tenaciousness
  • tenacity
  • toughness
  • unruliness
  • verdict
  • waywardness
  • willfulness
  • willpower
  • wrongheadedness

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