Synonyms of backing

backing 1 of 2

noun

1

as in support

an act or instance of helping

the teacher's backing on the science project was invaluable

Synonyms & Similar Words

• support
• assistance
• assist
• help
• boost
• aid
• encouragement
• lift
• hand
• advice
• helping hand
• guidance
• leg up
• service
• promotion
• advancement
• sponsorship
• abetment
• forwarding
• attention
• facilitation
• patronage
• furtherance
• kindness
• attendance
• mentoring
• counsel
• furthering
• care
• nurturance
• relief
• favor
• benefaction
• hand-holding
• charity
• beneficence
• philanthropy
• succor
• assuagement
• palliation

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• interference
• obstruction
• restraint
• inhibition
• hindrance
• constraint
• frustration
• repression
• deterrence
• discouragement

2

as in sponsorship

the financial support and general guidance for an undertaking

the museum exhibition would not have been possible without corporate backing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sponsorship
• patronage
• funding
• financing
• aegis
• assistance
• encouragement
• egis
• subsidy
• endowment
• auspice
• bankrolling
• aid
• help
• fosterage

backing

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verb

present participle of back

1

as in endorsing

to promote the interests or cause of

she enthusiastically backed the plan to renovate and upgrade the school's facilities

Synonyms & Similar Words

• endorsing
• advocating
• supporting
• championing
• indorsing
• embracing
• adopting
• helping
• assisting
• patronizing
• going in for
• aiding
• standing up for
• reinforcing
• sticking up for
• holding a brief for
• plumping (for)
• plonking (for)
• plunking (for)
• going to bat for
• bolstering
• saving
• reenforcing
• buttressing
• preaching
• espousing
• furthering
• siding (with)
• forwarding
• abetting
• seconding
• rescuing
• advancing
• backstopping
• propping (up)
• boosting
• plugging
• bailing out
• talking up
• delivering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• opposing
• interfering
• thwarting
• sabotaging
• frustrating
• baffling
• failing
• disappointing
• foiling
• deserting
• letting down

2

as in assisting

to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end

a number of influential people have already agreed to back the candidate

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assisting
• aiding
• helping
• supporting
• reinforcing
• endorsing
• bolstering
• abetting
• backstopping
• saving
• promoting
• guiding
• facilitating
• propping (up)
• encouraging
• bearing a hand
• sponsoring
• indorsing
• forwarding
• furthering
• comforting
• launching
• championing
• standing one in good stead
• fostering
• advancing
• serving
• reenforcing
• benefiting
• attending
• sustaining
• rescuing
• easing
• buttressing
• benefitting
• ministering (to)
• patronizing
• advising
• mentoring
• counselling
• boosting
• profiting
• nurturing
• succoring
• caring (for)
• bailing out
• favoring
• obliging
• counseling
• emboldening
• delivering
• heartening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• blocking
• opposing
• hindering
• restraining
• interfering
• obstructing
• impeding
• inhibiting
• hampering
• barring
• holding back
• constraining
• balking
• failing
• thwarting
• handicapping
• strangling
• disappointing
• sabotaging
• frustrating
• baffling
• deserting
• discouraging
• letting down
• foiling
• retarding
• damaging
• disheartening
• inconveniencing
• hurting
• repressing
• stifling
• harming
• stunting
• injuring
• straitening

3

as in reinforcing

to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)

the author needs to back her thesis with more facts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reinforcing
• bolstering
• supporting
• proving
• buttressing
• corroborating
• confirming
• reenforcing
• establishing
• substantiating
• shoring (up)
• verifying
• validating
• affirming
• avouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undermining
• weakening
• undercutting