Synonyms of doing

doing 1 of 2

noun

as in thing

something done by someone

is that mess in the kitchen your doing?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thing
• action
• act
• feat
• deed
• achievement
• accomplishment
• experience
• exploit
• work
• undertaking
• activity
• performance
• initiative
• adventure
• attainment
• proceeding
• dealing
• procedure
• trick
• enterprise
• move
• operation
• tactic
• stunt
• handiwork
• maneuver
• step
• measure
• emprise
• coaction

doing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of do

1

as in sufficing

to be fitting or proper

that outfit just won't do for the opera

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sufficing
• serving
• going
• fitting
• befitting
• working
• suiting
• filling the bill
• fitting the bill
• beseeming
• satisfying
• functioning

2

as in serving

to be enough

even half of that amount of sugar will do

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sufficing
• serving
• answering
• satisfying
• contenting
• suiting
• quenching
• assuaging
• satiating
• sating

3

as in performing

to carry through (as a process) to completion

do as much as you can and leave the rest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• performing
• accomplishing
• fulfilling
• executing
• achieving
• making
• implementing
• committing
• prosecuting
• negotiating
• carrying out
• completing
• realizing
• perpetrating
• finishing
• going through
• practicing
• pulling off
• carrying off
• effecting
• putting through
• bringing off
• following through (with)
• practising
• attaining
• bringing about
• compassing
• effectuating
• repeating
• working (at)
• nailing
• engaging (in)
• ending
• acing
• reenacting
• actualizing
• winding up
• reduplicating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failing
• slighting
• slurring
• skimping

4

as in decorating

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming

did the living room in French provincial style

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decorating
• adorning
• draping
• ornamenting
• enriching
• trimming
• beautifying
• painting
• embellishing
• garnishing
• dressing
• decking
• gracing
• embossing
• arraying
• festooning
• gussying up
• doing up
• bedecking
• blazoning
• fancifying
• dolling up
• prettying (up)
• bedizening
• emblazing
• caparisoning
• trapping
• fancying up
• embroidering
• accessorizing
• brightening
• glitzing (up)
• figuring
• chasing
• tricking (out)
• freshening
• braiding
• smartening
• filleting
• bossing
• swagging
• redoing
• hanging
• sprucing (up)
• redecorating
• garlanding
• appliquéing
• frilling
• dressing up
• ribboning
• jewelling
• flouncing
• feathering
• filigreeing
• jeweling
• fringing
• gilding
• wreathing
• furbelowing
• diamonding
• gemming
• impearling
• pearling
• lacing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• spoiling
• simplifying
• defacing
• displaying
• marring
• streamlining
• disfiguring
• stripping
• exposing
• revealing
• scarring
• uncovering
• dismantling
• baring
• divesting
• denuding
• blemishing
• uglifying

5

as in coping

to meet one's day-to-day needs

I'm doing just fine

Synonyms & Similar Words

• coping
• managing
• surviving
• affording
• faring
• shifting
• making ends meet
• getting along
• getting by
• getting on
• making do
• making out
• making shift
• fending for oneself
• scrounging
• contriving
• carrying on
• scraping (by or through)
• lasting
• eking out
• scraping (out)
• squeezing
• wringing
• swinging
• wresting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failing
• collapsing
• floundering
• falling short
• declining
• waning
• slumping
• fizzling
• giving up
• petering (out)

6

as in creating

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creating
• causing
• bringing
• generating
• working
• producing
• prompting
• spawning
• making
• effecting
• inducing
• yielding
• invoking
• bringing about
• resulting (in)
• promoting
• breeding
• translating (into)
• introducing
• giving rise to
• catalyzing
• drawing on
• encouraging
• effectuating
• bringing on
• bringing forth
• begetting
• occasioning
• engendering
• initiating
• contributing (to)
• launching
• developing
• starting
• beginning
• deciding
• establishing
• determining
• inaugurating
• instituting
• pioneering
• founding
• enacting
• cultivating
• fostering
• furthering
• rendering
• innovating
• advancing
• conducing (to)
• forwarding
• setting
• nurturing
• setting up
• fathering
• turning out
• nourishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• checking
• controlling
• suppressing
• crushing
• repressing
• stifling
• subduing
• restraining
• inhibiting
• smothering
• arresting
• quashing
• curbing
• putting down
• killing
• quelling
• dampening
• retarding
• destroying
• squashing
• squelching
• abolishing
• cracking down (on)
• canning
• liquidating
• extinguishing
• demolishing
• clamping down (on)
• quenching
• reining (in)
• stilling
• snuffing (out)

7

as in imitating

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of

the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imitating
• parodying
• mocking
• mimicking
• caricaturing
• spoofing
• performing
• sending up
• simulating
• emulating
• burlesquing
• playing
• travestying
• reproducing
• pretending
• ridiculing
• satirizing
• replicating
• deriding
• monkeying
• lampooning
• duplicating
• aping
• parroting
• feigning
• elaborating
• gibing
• enhancing
• shamming
• jibing
• acting
• exaggerating
• stretching
• embroidering
• miming
• personating
• embellishing
• expanding
• faking
• dissembling
• pantomiming
• playing up
• padding
• overstating
• enlarging (on or upon)
• counterfeiting
• pasquinading
• amplifying
• impersonating
• overdrawing
• putting on
• copycatting
• fleshing (out)
• magnifying

8

as in progressing

to move forward along a course

how are you doing with the house restoration?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• progressing
• proceeding
• going
• coming
• marching
• forging
• advancing
• pacing
• faring
• getting along
• coming along
• gaining ground
• going along
• getting on
• going off
• speeding
• travelling
• traveling
• pushing
• approaching
• accelerating
• driving
• repairing
• running
• nearing
• journeying
• passing
• propelling
• wending
• fast-forwarding
• actuating
• taking out
• impelling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• standing
• remaining
• stopping
• staying
• checking
• blocking
• hindering
• impeding
• stemming
• obstructing
• arresting
• halting
• interrupting
• holding back
• delaying
• suppressing
• detaining
• slowing (down or up)
• retarding
• stalling
• repressing
• inhibiting
• pausing
• hampering
• waiting
• balking
• ceasing
• nipping
• stunting
• cramping
• regressing
• letting up

9

as in playing

to present a portrayal or performance of

she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep

Synonyms & Similar Words

• performing
• playing
• portraying
• interpreting
• depicting
• representing
• impersonating
• acting
• enacting
• dramatizing
• rendering
• acting out
• pantomiming
• mimicking
• role-playing
• playacting
• imitating
• miming
• masquerading
• aping
• posing (as)
• underplaying
• taking on
• overacting
• overplaying
• hamming
• clowning
• roleplaying
• starring (in)
• coacting
• costarring
• co-acting
• co-starring

10

as in squeezing

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

did them out of their savings with surprising ease

Synonyms & Similar Words

• squeezing
• cheating
• plucking
• sticking
• hustling
• beating
• screwing
• stinging
• deceiving
• bleeding
• exploiting
• tricking
• conning
• defrauding
• victimizing
• shortchanging
• fiddling
• fleecing
• shorting
• diddling
• reaming
• chiselling
• fooling
• suckering
• swindling
• chiseling
• skinning
• stiffing
• doing in
• bilking
• hosing
• rooking
• shaking down
• gaffing
• mulcting
• betraying
• cozening
• ripping off
• thimblerigging
• euchring
• clipping
• chousing
• taking for a ride
• flimflamming
• nobbling
• extorting
• wrenching
• taking to the cleaners
• milking
• soaking
• selling a bill of goods to
• overcharging
• skunking
• nicking
• gouging
• wresting
• wringing
• duping
• gulling
• bitching
• double-crossing
• roping (in)
• bamboozling
• fast-talking

11

as in hiding

to strike repeatedly

no one is sure who did them in that alley

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hiding
• licking
• pounding
• whipping
• lashing
• beating
• attacking
• hitting
• knocking
• slapping
• battering
• smashing
• punching
• pelting
• slamming
• chopping
• batting
• assaulting
• switching
• spanking
• bashing
• thumping
• raiding
• hammering
• slating
• paddling
• flogging
• pummeling
• working over
• mauling
• currying
• slogging
• lambasting
• boxing
• tanning
• whacking
• clubbing
• storming
• pummelling
• smacking
• lathering
• fibbing
• punching out
• basting
• thrashing
• belting
• swiping
• pommelling
• tromping
• bludgeoning
• rushing
• buffeting
• belaboring
• whaling
• threshing
• whopping
• whapping
• cracking
• pommeling
• walloping
• beating up on
• messing (up)
• lacing
• wounding
• roughing (up)
• drubbing
• descending (on or upon)
• whupping
• pasting
• bunging up
• strapping
• birching
• socking
• assailing
• clobbering
• jumping (on)
• cuffing
• swatting
• laying on
• busting
• cudgelling
• clouting
• thwacking
• flagellating
• pouncing (on or upon)
• cudgeling
• besetting
• lamming
• caning
• mutilating
• scourging
• whamming
• whomping
• mangling
• maiming
• fustigating
• lacerating
• blackjacking
• rawhiding
• leathering
• goring
• cowhiding
• pistol-whipping
• horsewhipping

12

as in happening

to take place

nothing's ever doing in this boring little town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• happening
• being
• coming
• occurring
• cooking
• coming down
• transpiring
• passing
• going on
• coming off
• going down
• coming about
• happing
• chancing
• developing
• betiding
• coming to pass
• befalling
• proceeding
• rising
• intervening
• materializing
• shaping (up)
• following
• coming up
• resulting
• arising
• breaking
• springing (up)
• cropping (up)
• falling out
• turning out
• going off

Phrases Containing doing

• nothing doing