CARING (FOR) Synonyms: 172 Similar and Opposite Words

caring (for)

verb

Definition of caring (for)

present participle of care (for)

as in watching

to take charge of especially on behalf of another will you care for the lawn while we're gone?

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as in administering (to)

to attend to the needs and comforts of he is caring for his mother while she's sick

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as in accepting

to have a favorable opinion of I don't really care for what you're doing with that dog

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as in wanting

to wish to have I don't particularly care for rice cereal, but I'll eat it

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as in preferring

to show partiality toward she generally doesn't care for war movies

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Verb

For well-off parents, watching a child push away a helping of vegetables is annoying but manageable.

— Priya Fielding-Singh, STAT, 11 Nov. 2026
Murphy asked Scanlon, who was indeed watching his son play hockey at the time of the call.

— Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of watching

Verb

With Sam Darnold nursing a quad injury that could hold him out for a few weeks, the Seattle Seahawks are turning to former Broncos quarterback Drew Lock against the Arizona Cardinals.

— Sam Jane, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2026
Ahead of Wednesday night’s game against the Buffalo Sabres, Ridly Greig was nursing his own lower-body injury, and Tyler Kleven was too sick to play.

— Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of nursing

Verb

Along with accepting the honey donation, Saturday was also busy at the food bank because volunteers from Jewel-Osco were on hand to help with the holiday meal box program.

— David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
The company said the system subsequently improved the proof twice, with Lean accepting the final version as well.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of accepting

Verb

For many of us, those concerns are rooted in wanting to provide for our families, caring for our aging parents and giving our children a better future.

— Jose M. Muñoz, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
Shane talks about wanting to help his family financially after the death of his sister.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of wanting

Verb

Calibrating policy under current conditions is complicated by Warsh's push for a more mercurial Fed that avoids signaling where policy is heading, preferring for markets to take their own signals from incoming data.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
But Frediani points out that there are often different levels of concern in people with type 2 diabetes, reflected by some people preferring to sleep in on weekends versus having enough energy for those days.

— Ricardo Correa, EverydayHealth.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of preferring

Verb

Especially at small companies, managers are often tasked with supervising the hiring process on top of their regular duties.

— Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026
Valenti and Lovley, longtime developers who grew up and live in central Connecticut, aren’t interested in supervising construction or managing properties at the far ends of the state.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of supervising

Verb

To defend us all from a health care system more interested in monetizing our illness than healing our bodies and minds.

— Eric Henderson, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
But in the late 1800s, the city’s draw was healing mineral springs, not IPAs, which is why George Vanderbilt built his lavish 250-room French Renaissance chateau here.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of healing

Verb

Malkmus teases guitarist Greg Ginn for liking the Grateful Dead now and notes how sweet drummer Bill Stevenson seems for answering a reporter’s silly question so thoughtfully.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 10 Nov. 2026
Social convention dictates that you not be caught liking Hoffman’s posts or following her yourself.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026

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