Synonyms of cracking

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adjective

ˈkra-kiŋ 

as in excellent

of the very best kind

a writer renowned for her cracking tales of mystery and suspense

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excellent
• great
• terrific
• superb
• wonderful
• fantastic
• awesome
• lovely
• stellar
• beautiful
• fabulous
• fine
• prime
• hot
• marvellous
• marvelous
• quality
• cool
• famous
• top
• topping
• slick
• classic
• swell
• neat
• sensational
• brave
• heavenly
• good
• splendid
• bumper
• divine
• sterling
• superior
• immense
• prize
• crackerjack
• par excellence
• keen
• banner
• grand
• choice
• first-rate
• first-class
• exceptional
• fab
• dynamite
• unsurpassed
• superlative
• top-notch
• down
• dope
• gone
• corking
• groovy
• high-class
• peachy
• boss
• decent
• out of this world
• top-shelf
• number one
• blue-ribbon
• tip-top
• mean
• frontline
• radical
• too much
• bang-up
• bully
• nifty
• dandy
• capital
• noble
• topflight
• gangbuster
• blue-chip
• out-of-sight
• wizard
• first-string
• better
• gangbusters
• brag
• supernal
• A1
• primo
• prizewinning
• satisfactory
• hype
• gilt-edge
• fantabulous
• peachy keen
• special
• righteous
• adequate
• bonny
• acceptable
• A-OK
• boffo
• top-of-the-line
• okay
• phat
• bonnie
• No. 1
• numero uno
• five-star
• all right
• gilt-edged
• traditional
• tolerable
• jim-dandy
• passable
• classical
• four-star
• fancy
• OK
• premium
• high-grade
• select
• high-test
• standard
• superfine

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• poor
• terrible
• rotten
• awful
• pathetic
• lousy
• atrocious
• wretched
• vile
• bad
• inferior
• unsatisfactory
• substandard
• low-grade
• execrable
• mediocre
• middling
• second-class
• second-rate

cracking

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adverb

as in extremely

to a great degree

tells a cracking good tale of a search for a lost city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• extremely
• very
• damn
• incredibly
• terribly
• damned
• too
• highly
• badly
• so
• seriously
• really
• severely
• jolly
• desperately
• super
• full
• real
• far
• that
• especially
• greatly
• rattling
• exceeding
• thumping
• wildly
• whacking
• heavily
• most
• passing
• bone
• roaring
• much
• intensely
• such
• mighty
• good and
• particularly
• exceptionally
• fiercely
• wicked
• extra
• specially
• awful
• way
• spanking
• absolutely
• sore
• dang
• fantastically
• immensely
• exceedingly
• awfully
• totally
• fabulously
• deadly
• hugely
• thoroughly
• uncommonly
• a lot
• corking
• completely
• monstrous
• achingly
• remarkably
• supremely
• vitally
• eminently
• utterly
• frightfully
• almighty
• enormously
• mortally
• ever
• sorely
• beastly
• stinking
• roaringly
• positively
• surpassingly
• archly
• as all get-out
• filthy
• blisteringly
• deeply
• majorly
• vastly
• right
• significantly
• mightily
• entirely
• colossally
• visibly
• noticeably
• unco
• considerably
• fully
• wholly
• downright
• flat-out
• substantially
• obviously
• notably
• radically
• purely
• profoundly
• extensively
• markedly
• palpably
• altogether
• discernibly
• appreciably
• plainly
• excessively
• plentifully
• monumentally
• obscenely
• astronomically
• astonishingly
• grandly
• abundantly
• amazingly
• monstrously
• staggeringly
• overmuch

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• little
• slightly
• somewhat
• nominally
• just
• negligibly
• barely
• hardly
• scarcely
• marginally
• minimally
• scantily
• meagerly

cracking

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verb

present participle of crack

1

as in popping

to break suddenly with an explosive sound

the tree branch unexpectedly cracked under our weight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• popping
• snapping
• splitting
• crackling
• exploding
• shattering
• bursting
• hissing
• clicking
• sputtering
• rending
• clattering
• sizzling
• riving
• clacking

2

as in choking

to yield to mental or emotional stress

after hours of tough questioning the suspect finally cracked and blurted out a confession

Synonyms & Similar Words

• choking
• losing it
• melting down
• falling apart
• going to pieces
• flipping (out)
• freaking (out)
• wigging (out)
• breaking down
• breaking up
• going off the deep end
• blowing one's cool

3

as in deciphering

to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language

the United States military used the Navajo language as a code during World War II, and the enemy never cracked it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deciphering
• breaking
• decoding
• decrypting
• solving
• translating
• rendering
• unraveling
• working
• figuring out
• unscrambling
• working out
• descrambling
• doping (out)
• puzzling (out)
• unriddling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• coding
• encoding
• encrypting
• ciphering
• mixing (up)
• enciphering
• garbling
• jumbling (up)

4

as in knocking

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

cracked the bow of the ship with a champagne bottle

Synonyms & Similar Words

• knocking
• smacking
• slapping
• hitting
• banging
• slamming
• punching
• pounding
• clapping
• whacking
• striking
• clipping
• swiping
• batting
• kicking
• thumping
• hammering
• nailing
• tapping
• bashing
• licking
• poking
• pushing
• shoving
• rapping
• thwacking
• boxing
• flicking
• jabbing
• bobbing
• busting
• chopping
• swatting
• slugging
• clouting
• zapping
• tagging
• clobbering
• bopping
• socking
• smiting
• pasting
• clocking
• bumping
• bludgeoning
• bonking
• belting
• stabbing
• biffing
• slogging
• walloping
• stroking
• beating
• whaling
• battering
• scuffing
• pummelling
• stamping
• pummeling
• mangling
• mauling
• peppering
• hanging one on
• slashing
• cuffing
• pelting
• lashing
• whipping
• buffeting
• jostling
• dumping
• roughing
• butting
• bunging
• prodding
• lambasting
• drubbing
• levelling
• decking
• pommelling
• lacing
• creaming
• sapping
• switching
• bunting
• kneeing
• felling
• pommeling
• flogging
• cudgelling
• thrashing
• conking
• flailing
• spearing
• clubbing
• flooring
• knocking down
• bowling (down or over)
• leveling
• cudgeling
• caning
• sledgehammering
• sledging
• braining
• sucker punching
• skulling
• rabbit-punching
• beaning

5

as in solving

to find an answer for through reasoning

I've been mulling this riddle, but I just can't crack it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• solving
• unraveling
• answering
• resolving
• working
• deciphering
• breaking
• figuring out
• working out
• doping (out)
• puzzling (out)
• riddling (out)
• concluding
• deciding
• unriddling
• gathering
• reasoning
• deducing
• judging
• guessing
• inferring
• straightening (out)
• speculating
• untangling
• ironing out
• clearing (up)
• decoding
• assuming
• divining
• untying
• presuming
• conjecturing
• untieing
• unscrambling

6

as in bothering

to cause to go insane or as if insane

cracked by years in solitary confinement, the prisoner could only maunder incoherently

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bothering
• crazing
• disturbing
• distracting
• unbalancing
• unhinging
• upsetting
• maddening
• unsettling
• annoying
• deranging
• confusing
• frenzying
• irritating
• locoing
• unstringing
• disquieting
• perturbing
• agitating
• discomposing
• vexing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• settling
• relaxing
• soothing
• calming
• quieting
• tranquilizing
• tranquillizing

Examples of cracking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Another uninspired performance coupled with a a heavy defeat may well spell the end for the Basque manager at the Emirates, so this fixture should have plenty of undertones and be a cracking game of football. —SI.com, 28 Oct. 2019

This is shaping up to be a cracking game at Old Trafford that United will probably edge. —SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019

His fortunes finally turned back Wednesday, when van Garderen laid down a cracking time trial at the Tour of California. —sacbee, 16 May 2018

Phrases Containing cracking

• get cracking