strive

Other forms of strive

past tense or participle

striven

past tense or participle

strove

present participle

striving·

third person

strives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about strive

What does strive mean?

strive means "attempt by employing effort". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in strive?

strive has 1 syllable: strive. In IPA it is /ˈstɹaɪv/.

What is another word for strive?

Close synonyms include endeavor, endeavour, reach, strain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is strive a common word?

strive is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.