Synonyms of doing

doing 1 of 2

noun

ˈdü-iŋ 

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 serving

to be fitting or proper

that outfit just won't do for the opera

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in sufficing

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)
• 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
• doing up
• bedecking
• blazoning
• gussying up
• fancifying
• dolling up
• prettying (up)
• bedizening
• emblazing
• caparisoning
• trapping
• fancying up
• embroidering
• accessorizing
• glitzing (up)
• brightening
• figuring
• chasing
• tricking (out)
• freshening
• braiding
• smartening
• filleting
• bossing
• swagging
• redoing
• hanging
• sprucing (up)
• redecorating
• garlanding
• frilling
• dressing up
• ribboning
• flouncing
• feathering
• filigreeing
• jeweling
• fringing
• gilding
• appliquéing
• 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
• 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
• 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
• acting
• impersonating
• enacting
• dramatizing
• rendering
• acting out
• mimicking
• imitating
• masquerading
• miming
• posing (as)
• taking on
• aping
• pantomiming
• role-playing
• clowning
• playacting
• starring (in)
• underplaying
• overplaying
• hamming
• overacting
• coacting
• costarring

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
• hustling
• sticking
• beating
• screwing
• stinging
• deceiving
• bleeding
• tricking
• exploiting
• conning
• defrauding
• victimizing
• shortchanging
• fiddling
• fleecing
• shorting
• diddling
• reaming
• suckering
• swindling
• chiseling
• fooling
• 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
• selling a bill of goods to
• soaking
• 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
• beating
• lashing
• attacking
• hitting
• knocking
• battering
• slapping
• smashing
• punching
• pelting
• assaulting
• slamming
• switching
• chopping
• thumping
• batting
• spanking
• bashing
• raiding
• hammering
• slating
• paddling
• flogging
• pummeling
• working over
• mauling
• currying
• slogging
• lambasting
• tanning
• clubbing
• smacking
• boxing
• lathering
• whacking
• storming
• fibbing
• punching out
• thrashing
• basting
• swiping
• belting
• tromping
• bludgeoning
• rushing
• buffeting
• belaboring
• whaling
• threshing
• whopping
• pommeling
• cracking
• walloping
• beating up on
• messing (up)
• roughing (up)
• lacing
• drubbing
• wounding
• descending (on or upon)
• whupping
• pasting
• bunging up
• strapping
• birching
• socking
• assailing
• swatting
• jumping (on)
• clobbering
• cuffing
• laying on
• busting
• clouting
• thwacking
• flagellating
• pouncing (on or upon)
• cudgeling
• besetting
• lamming
• caning
• mutilating
• scourging
• whamming
• whomping
• mangling
• fustigating
• maiming
• lacerating
• blackjacking
• rawhiding
• leathering
• cowhiding
• goring
• 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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of doing

Noun

Colorado trio Prairiewolf operates in both these realms, creating limpid yet propulsive instrumental music that faces the stars while remaining focused on doings on the ground. — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 17 July 2026

While many assumed the jewelry designer had a hand in designing her engagement ring, Meyer clarified in the comments that the proposal — and the ring — were all Ogunlesi's doing. — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026

Verb

While compromise can be beneficial in a relationship, sometimes doing your own thing is too. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 30 July 2026

Fury is doing his own tune-up work, with his bout against Mariusz Wach landing the night before this card. — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026

Phrases Containing doing

• nothing doing