Synonyms of making

making 1 of 2

noun

as in potential

often makings plural the basic elements from which something can be developed

she has all the makings of an excellent leader, but she needs some experience first

Synonyms & Similar Words

• potential
• material
• possibility
• stuff
• potentiality
• substance
• timber
• raw material
• matter
• metal

making

2 of 2

verb

present participle of make

1

as in producing

to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials

will you help me make the dough for the cookies?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• producing
• creating
• manufacturing
• constructing
• assembling
• forming
• fashioning
• building
• crafting
• fabricating
• framing
• organizing
• shaping
• structuring
• designing
• putting together
• inventing
• establishing
• erecting
• forging
• molding
• devising
• raising
• concocting
• rearing
• instituting
• originating
• handcrafting
• hewing
• remaking
• making up
• imagining
• visualizing
• throwing up
• minting
• envisaging
• knocking out
• setting up
• contriving
• conceiving
• picturing
• putting up
• prefabricating
• throwing up
• refashioning
• fathering
• remanufacturing
• patching (together)
• cobbling (together or up)
• cooking (up)
• thinking (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dismantling
• destroying
• ruining
• wrecking
• disassembling
• smashing
• eradicating
• abolishing
• extinguishing
• shattering
• flattening
• demolishing
• exterminating
• pulverizing
• annihilating
• devastating
• breaking up
• taking apart
• exploding
• dismembering
• razing
• blowing up

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• dismantling
• destroying
• ruining
• wrecking
• disassembling
• smashing
• eradicating
• abolishing
• extinguishing
• shattering
• flattening
• demolishing
• exterminating
• pulverizing
• annihilating
• devastating
• breaking up
• taking apart
• exploding
• dismembering
• razing
• blowing up

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2

as in achieving

to obtain (as a goal) through effort

we finally made it!

Synonyms & Similar Words

• achieving
• winning
• attaining
• gaining
• obtaining
• scoring
• hitting
• garnering
• getting
• securing
• bagging
• logging
• acquiring
• landing
• capturing
• realizing
• procuring
• drawing
• carrying
• ringing up
• tying
• racking up
• approaching
• matching
• touching
• chalking up
• clocking (up)
• meeting
• topping
• rivaling
• outdoing
• notching (up)
• equaling
• tieing
• excelling
• surpassing
• rivalling
• equalling
• beating
• measuring up (to)
• amounting (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• losing
• failing (at)
• falling short (of)

• missing
• losing
• failing (at)
• falling short (of)

3

as in creating

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creating
• causing
• bringing
• generating
• producing
• prompting
• doing
• spawning
• working
• effecting
• inducing
• yielding
• invoking
• catalyzing
• effectuating
• occasioning
• engendering
• bringing about
• begetting
• breeding
• introducing
• promoting
• encouraging
• bringing on
• bringing forth
• drawing on
• inaugurating
• initiating
• establishing
• launching
• starting
• developing
• giving rise to
• determining
• beginning
• instituting
• deciding
• founding
• pioneering
• translating (into)
• furthering
• innovating
• enacting
• cultivating
• fostering
• resulting (in)
• rendering
• forwarding
• advancing
• nourishing
• fathering
• nurturing
• setting
• conducing (to)
• contributing (to)
• setting up
• turning out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• controlling
• checking
• suppressing
• crushing
• squashing
• quashing
• subduing
• repressing
• quelling
• smothering
• inhibiting
• stifling
• curbing
• restraining
• squelching
• retarding
• arresting
• dampening
• killing
• destroying
• abolishing
• stilling
• demolishing
• extinguishing
• canning
• putting down
• liquidating
• reining (in)
• quenching
• clamping down (on)
• cracking down (on)
• snuffing (out)

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• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• controlling
• checking
• suppressing
• crushing
• squashing
• quashing
• subduing
• repressing
• quelling
• smothering
• inhibiting
• stifling
• curbing
• restraining
• squelching
• retarding
• arresting
• dampening
• killing
• destroying
• abolishing
• stilling
• demolishing
• extinguishing
• canning
• putting down
• liquidating
• reining (in)
• quenching
• clamping down (on)
• cracking down (on)
• snuffing (out)

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4

as in fulfilling

to carry through (as a process) to completion

one person from each department will be asked to make a short presentation at the meeting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• achieving
• fulfilling
• accomplishing
• executing
• performing
• doing
• implementing
• committing
• negotiating
• prosecuting
• completing
• finishing
• perpetrating
• carrying out
• realizing
• effecting
• pulling off
• carrying off
• putting through
• going through
• compassing
• effectuating
• practicing
• bringing off
• attaining
• repeating
• bringing about
• acing
• nailing
• following through (with)
• ending
• reenacting
• actualizing
• practising
• reduplicating
• winding up
• working (at)
• engaging (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failing
• slighting
• slurring
• skimping

• failing
• slighting
• slurring
• skimping

5

as in forcing

to cause (a person) to give in to pressure

made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around

Synonyms & Similar Words

• forcing
• coercing
• compelling
• obligating
• obliging
• pressuring
• driving
• constraining
• impressing
• blackmailing
• dragooning
• muscling
• pressing
• intimidating
• sandbagging
• impelling
• threatening
• blackjacking
• bullying
• cowing
• dragging
• terrorizing
• browbeating
• shaming
• bulldozing
• harassing
• badgering
• hectoring
• twisting one's arm
• hounding
• menacing
• high-pressuring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• allowing
• letting
• permitting
• moving
• inducing
• satisfying
• arguing
• talking (into)
• winning (over)
• convincing
• persuading
• prevailing (on or upon)

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• allowing
• letting
• permitting
• moving
• inducing
• satisfying
• arguing
• talking (into)
• winning (over)
• convincing
• persuading
• prevailing (on or upon)

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6

as in estimating

to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement

I make that to be about six feet long

Synonyms & Similar Words

• estimating
• figuring
• putting
• calculating
• guessing
• gauging
• supposing
• judging
• placing
• calling
• reckoning
• understanding
• deducing
• concluding
• gaging
• conjecturing
• inferring
• extrapolating
• gathering
• reasoning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• measuring
• scaling
• calibrating
• computing
• working out

• measuring
• scaling
• calibrating
• computing
• working out

7

as in building

to form by putting together parts or materials

make a model airplane

Synonyms & Similar Words

• building
• constructing
• assembling
• creating
• erecting
• producing
• designing
• establishing
• manufacturing
• fabricating
• piecing
• confecting
• generating
• rearing
• raising
• making up
• shaping
• fashioning
• rebuilding
• organizing
• concocting
• inventing
• forging
• putting together
• setting up
• molding
• initiating
• putting up
• devising
• reconstructing
• originating
• instituting
• beginning
• imagining
• innovating
• hammering
• framing
• carpentering
• inaugurating
• handcrafting
• coining
• constituting
• founding
• combining
• conceiving
• contriving
• prefabricating
• reassembling
• retrofitting
• fathering
• redeveloping
• uniting
• reedifying
• throwing up
• jerry-building
• cooking (up)
• thinking (up)
• rigging (up)

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• destroying
• dismantling
• striking
• ruining
• wrecking
• disassembling
• smashing
• dismembering
• demolishing
• shattering
• flattening
• taking down
• pulverizing
• levelling
• leveling
• tearing down
• knocking down
• devastating
• exploding
• razing
• dividing
• separating
• detaching
• demounting
• disengaging
• disconnecting
• ruinating
• blowing up
• pulling down
• disjoining
• disuniting

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• destroying
• dismantling
• striking
• ruining
• wrecking
• disassembling
• smashing
• dismembering
• demolishing
• shattering
• flattening
• taking down
• pulverizing
• levelling
• leveling
• tearing down
• knocking down
• devastating
• exploding
• razing
• dividing
• separating
• detaching
• demounting
• disengaging
• disconnecting
• ruinating
• blowing up
• pulling down
• disjoining
• disuniting

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8

as in seeming

to give the impression of being

the family made merry despite their financial worries

Synonyms & Similar Words

• seeming
• looking
• sounding
• feeling
• appearing
• acting
• pretending
• resembling
• implying
• recalling
• suggesting
• dissembling
• coming off (as)
• hinting
• coming across (as)
• insinuating

9

as in heading

to go on a specified course or in a certain direction

the baby made straight for the toy lying on the rug

Synonyms & Similar Words

• heading
• turning
• putting
• aiming
• pointing
• directing
• bearing
• bending
• veering
• orienting
• steering
• reversing
• cutting
• backing
• facing
• tacking
• setting out
• striking
• setting off
• taking off
• putting out
• beelining
• inclining
• turning back
• swerving
• wheeling
• lighting out
• coming about
• coming round
• yawing
• putting about
• about-facing

10

as in enacting

to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action

the legislature failed to make any new laws last session

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enacting
• passing
• approving
• constituting
• legislating
• effecting
• dictating
• permitting
• authorizing
• ratifying
• laying down
• ordaining
• executing
• sanctioning
• allowing
• proclaiming
• administering
• reenacting
• bringing about
• confirming
• decreeing
• repassing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• revoking
• killing
• cancelling
• canceling
• reversing
• repealing
• abolishing
• invalidating
• rescinding
• overturning
• nullifying
• annulling
• abrogating
• voiding

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• revoking
• killing
• cancelling
• canceling
• reversing
• repealing
• abolishing
• invalidating
• rescinding
• overturning
• nullifying
• annulling
• abrogating
• voiding

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11

as in earning

to receive as return for effort

I make considerably more money now than I did when I first started working here

Synonyms & Similar Words

• earning
• winning
• getting
• gaining
• reaping
• obtaining
• garnering
• landing
• securing
• realizing
• acquiring
• attaining
• procuring
• capturing
• achieving
• drawing
• carrying
• bagging
• bringing in
• pulling down
• accomplishing
• knocking down
• coming by
• accumulating
• scoring
• netting
• amassing
• grossing
• occupying
• remaking
• clearing
• catching
• regaining
• annexing
• recapturing
• taking over
• reacquiring
• racking up
• picking up
• reattaining
• notching (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing
• giving
• paying
• forfeiting
• granting
• according
• yielding
• relinquishing
• surrendering
• parting (with)
• handing over
• giving up

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• losing
• giving
• paying
• forfeiting
• granting
• according
• yielding
• relinquishing
• surrendering
• parting (with)
• handing over
• giving up

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12

as in knowing

to have a clear idea of

what do you make of the latest information?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• knowing
• understanding
• seeing
• deciphering
• recognizing
• getting
• comprehending
• appreciating
• grasping
• realizing
• perceiving
• sensing
• conceiving
• discerning
• assimilating
• seizing
• digging
• registering
• catching
• apprehending
• decoding
• intuiting
• beholding
• making out
• twigging
• cognizing
• savvying
• compassing
• grokking
• absorbing
• digesting
• fathoming
• tumbling (to)
• picking up on
• catching on (to)
• cottoning (to or on to)
• penetrating
• taking in
• piercing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• mistaking
• misinterpreting
• misreading
• misunderstanding
• misconstruing
• misperceiving
• misconceiving
• misapprehending

• missing
• mistaking
• misinterpreting
• misreading
• misunderstanding
• misconstruing
• misperceiving
• misconceiving
• misapprehending

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13

as in shutting

chiefly dialect to position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening

make the gate when ye leave

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shutting
• closing
• locking
• sealing
• slamming
• securing
• steeking
• chaining
• latching
• plugging
• barring
• clapping
• stoppering
• fastening
• banging
• bolting
• battening (down)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• opening
• unlocking
• unbolting
• unfastening
• unlatching
• unsealing
• unchaining
• unbarring

• opening
• unlocking
• unbolting
• unfastening
• unlatching
• unsealing
• unchaining
• unbarring

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Phrases Containing making

• making love

• making love