Synonyms of cooking

cooking 1 of 2

noun

as in cuisine

the art or style of preparing food (as in a specified region)

a TV show that teaches viewers the basics of French cooking

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cuisine
• cookery
• haute cuisine
• gastronomy

cooking

2 of 2

verb

present participle of cook

1

as in misrepresenting

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of

it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data

Synonyms & Similar Words

• misrepresenting
• distorting
• coloring
• falsifying
• twisting
• complicating
• slanting
• warping
• misstating
• fudging
• bending
• perverting
• garbling
• misrelating
• misinterpreting
• censoring
• obscuring
• confusing
• misdescribing
• masking
• camouflaging
• disguising
• dissembling
• mistaking
• whitewashing
• mixing (up)
• glossing (over)
• mistranslating
• lying
• misspeaking
• veiling
• bowdlerizing
• mystifying
• fibbing
• prevaricating
• confounding
• equivocating
• paltering
• belying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• explaining
• interpreting
• illustrating
• clarifying
• illuminating
• clearing (up)
• spelling out
• deciphering

2

as in happening

to take place

wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cooking

Noun

Its three-rack interior offers 544 square inches of cooking space. — New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2026

However, these coatings remain common in lower-temperature cooking appliances (including many name-brand rice cookers), and that worries less than high-heat applications. — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

Verb

The easiest way to lower your exposure to the cyclospora parasite is by washing your hands and surfaces doing food preparation, by washing raw ingredients in cold water, and by thoroughly cooking fruits and vegetables. — Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

Tasks like cooking or coordinating family logistics are typically excluded from measures of GDP. — Marianne Cooper, Time, 5 Aug. 2026