Synonyms of giving

giving 1 of 3

adjective

1

as in nurturing

Related Words

• nurturing
• caring
• female
• feminine
• womanly
• matronly
• parental
• matriarchal
• motherly
• mother
• maternal
• womanish
• womanlike

2

as in yielding

Related Words

• yielding
• bending
• tractable
• resilient
• workable
• limber
• elastic
• pliant
• flexible
• kneadable
• waxen
• flexile
• supple
• bendable
• ductile
• willowy
• pliable
• adaptable
• bendy
• plastic
• waxy
• malleable
• moldable
• shapable

Dissimilar Words

• rigid
• stiff
• inflexible
• intractable

giving

2 of 3

noun

as in paying

the act of offering money in exchange for goods or services

a diorama about pioneer life at the museum that depicts the giving of beads for clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• paying
• payment
• compensation
• rendering
• remittance
• remitment
• repayment
• disbursement
• remuneration
• tendering
• reimbursement
• prepayment
• overpayment
• paying up
• paying off

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonpayment
• underpayment

giving

3 of 3

verb

present participle of give

1

as in donating

to make a present of

thanked all the tutors who generously gave their time to help students after school

Synonyms & Similar Words

• donating
• volunteering
• providing
• presenting
• contributing
• bestowing
• issuing
• offering
• giving of
• awarding
• giving away
• rendering
• furnishing
• affording
• conferring
• paying
• assisting
• benefiting
• aiding
• imparting
• sacrificing
• throwing in
• endowing
• dispensing
• lavishing
• pitching in
• kicking in
• regaling
• administering
• extending
• helping
• proffering
• chipping in
• tendering
• comping
• handing out
• doling out
• dishing out
• enduing
• meting (out)
• forking (over, out, or up)
• pungling (up)
• putting up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• holding
• keeping
• retaining
• withholding
• saving
• preserving
• selling
• lending
• pocketing
• advancing
• loaning

2

as in handing

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another

gave my camera to my father to hold while I went swimming

Synonyms & Similar Words

• handing
• leaving
• transferring
• entrusting
• delivering
• delegating
• passing
• granting
• relinquishing
• transmitting
• commending
• recommending
• trusting
• committing
• confiding
• loaning
• lending
• consigning
• reposing
• submitting
• distributing
• assigning
• conferring
• vesting
• dividing
• bequeathing
• turning over
• supplying
• giving over
• handing over
• dispensing
• furnishing
• dispersing
• yielding
• dealing (out)
• surrendering
• releasing
• willing
• turning in
• advancing
• handing in
• handing down
• handing on
• recommitting
• retransmitting
• redelivering
• retransferring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• keeping
• holding
• retaining
• receiving
• withholding
• possessing
• reserving
• owning
• accepting
• taking
• occupying
• holding back
• detaining
• taking in
• taking over

3

as in offering

to bring before the public in performance or exhibition

the author will give a reading from her latest work at 7:00 p.m.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• offering
• presenting
• staging
• carrying
• performing
• mounting
• showing
• displaying
• exhibiting
• exposing
• coming out with
• rendering
• representing
• unveiling
• enacting
• playing
• portraying
• showing off
• parading
• previewing
• depicting
• acting
• extending
• tendering
• impersonating
• dramatizing
• proffering

4

as in collapsing

to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure

they loaded the shopping cart with so much food it gave under all the weight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• collapsing
• going
• yielding
• crumpling
• tumbling
• buckling
• giving way
• dying
• melting
• shattering
• going out
• foundering
• crumbling
• imploding
• breaking
• crashing
• caving (in)
• failing
• bursting
• flattening
• popping
• splitting
• snapping
• smashing
• stalling
• cracking
• giving out
• deflating
• splintering
• melting down
• breaking down
• conking (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rising
• swelling
• inflating

5

as in spending

to hand over or use up in payment

I wouldn't give a nickel for such a run-down car

Synonyms & Similar Words

• paying
• spending
• disbursing
• expending
• laying out
• dropping
• outlaying
• shelling out
• wasting
• forking (over, out, or up)
• lavishing
• squandering
• blowing
• raining
• dissipating
• throwing away
• running through
• frittering (away)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• saving
• making
• acquiring
• gaining
• earning
• securing
• winning
• realizing
• procuring
• hoarding
• laying up
• caching
• garnering

6

as in expressing

to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)

she gave her opinion on the matter very firmly and unmistakably

Synonyms & Similar Words

• expressing
• voicing
• stating
• looking
• announcing
• airing
• raising
• writing
• expounding
• ventilating
• sounding
• saying
• conveying
• venting
• describing
• putting forth
• offering
• proclaiming
• disseminating
• declaring
• publishing
• giving air to
• submitting
• circulating
• broadcasting
• advertising
• enunciating
• communicating
• enouncing
• speaking out
• writing up
• speaking up
• sounding off
• putting over
• putting across
• chiming in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suppressing
• restricting
• stifling
• restraining
• censoring

7

as in devoting

to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention

totally gave himself to his studies in the hopes of winning a scholarship for next year

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devoting
• applying
• addressing
• committing
• buckling
• bending
• getting cracking
• working
• spending
• getting with it
• exerting
• getting one's act together
• turning one's hand
• reapplying
• involving
• setting (to)
• taxing
• concerning
• settling (down)
• readdressing
• stressing
• busying
• engaging
• troubling
• wearing out
• exhausting
• hustling
• plowing
• carrying on
• knuckling down
• plunging (in)
• humping
• putting out
• plugging (away)
• pitching in
• grinding
• pegging (away)
• straining
• plodding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• playing
• idling
• trifling
• dawdling
• fooling around
• fiddling (around)
• messing around
• puttering (around)
• dallying
• pottering (around)
• monkeying (around)
• dillydallying

8

as in providing

to produce as revenue

a company that consistently gives $30 million in profits to the owner

Synonyms & Similar Words

• yielding
• paying
• providing
• returning
• bearing
• supplying
• affording
• furnishing
• bringing in
• netting
• paying off

9

as in supplying

to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption

gave him my e-mail address

Synonyms & Similar Words

• providing
• supplying
• handing
• feeding
• furnishing
• delivering
• distributing
• dispensing
• handing over
• allocating
• administering
• plying (with)
• dealing (out)
• assigning
• apportioning
• transferring
• ceding
• prorating
• doling out
• portioning
• meting (out)
• deeding
• parceling (out)
• making over

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• holding (back)
• retaining
• keeping (back)
• maintaining
• preserving
• withholding
• saving
• reserving
• conserving
• keeping up

10

as in tendering

to put before another for acceptance or consideration

she gave the committee her grant proposal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• offering
• tendering
• extending
• submitting
• proffering
• proposing
• posing
• running by
• trotting out
• volunteering
• holding out
• giving in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• receiving
• taking
• accepting
• approving
• authorizing
• denying
• confirming
• warranting
• rejecting
• ratifying
• sanctioning
• clearing
• formalizing
• declining
• finalizing
• refusing
• accrediting
• disallowing
• vetoing
• disapproving
• turning down
• spurning
• withdrawing
• rebutting
• negativing
• ignoring
• neglecting
• disregarding
• retracting
• homologating
• approbating
• OK'ing
• overlooking
• rebuffing

11

as in transmitting

to cause (something) to pass from one to another

she gave her cold to me, and now I'm so sick that I can barely get out of bed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• transmitting
• spreading
• conveying
• imparting
• communicating
• disseminating
• propagating
• transferring
• conducting
• delivering
• transfusing
• diffusing
• surrendering
• broadcasting
• infecting
• turning over
• contaminating
• handing over
• poisoning
• handing down
• handing on

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• catching
• contracting
• coming down (with)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of giving

Noun

And as Gurman notes, the service also has frequently served up stunts like Hanks-giving, a bounty of Tom Hanks movies that stream around Thanksgiving. — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026

Why Giving Comes Before Investing Many people see charitable giving as something that happens after success. — Sergey Stopnevich, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

The most common ritual practice is the giving of offerings to deities, although—in contrast to the ancient druids—the sacrifice of animals (or humans) is not practiced in modern Druidry. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

This year, for the first time in a decade, the tax code has largely stopped encouraging charitable giving on its own account, which leaves the payout floor no longer one safeguard among several, but the only one left. — Vandana Arcot, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026

Many of Straus’ contemporary philanthropists were setting lofty goals for their giving. — Leslie Lenkowsky, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

His foundation has missed the legal minimum for charitable giving for four years running. — Gautam Mukunda, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2026

Verb

For shopper Kori Farmer, The Grocery Spot helps stretch her budget while giving her access to fresh food close to home. — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

The crisis is giving new urgency to an energy problem that Bangladesh’s garment manufacturers were already confronting. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026

Our rotating menus include items children can prepare on their own or with limited assistance, giving families flexibility while ensuring students have something dependable to eat. — Fred Hassell, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2026

The result is one of the restaurant’s most memorable design features, giving diners something to look at beyond the food piled onto their plates. — Abby Price, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2026

But the only way that Lucky was going to escape this life is by giving the money over to the FBI, right? — Max Gao, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026

Bonta has been relatively silent on these moves, giving few interviews. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026

The Valkyries have four days off between Wednesday’s game against the Sky and their Monday showdown with the Wings, giving Stokes time to recover from her concussion. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

Mercury in Leo and your 1st House of Self sextiles Venus in your 3rd House of Communication, giving your voice warmth, charm, and memorable timing. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026