Synonyms of materializing

materializing

verb

present participle of materialize

1

as in starting

to come into existence

the business speculator promised profits that never seemed to materialize

Synonyms & Similar Words

• starting
• beginning
• originating
• appearing
• arising
• being
• commencing
• forming
• emerging
• springing
• actualizing
• arriving
• existing
• engendering
• living
• breaking
• dawning
• setting in
• lasting
• breathing
• continuing
• surviving
• subsisting
• persisting
• coalescing
• coming on
• shaping (up)
• enduring
• cohering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ending
• stopping
• ceasing
• finishing
• concluding
• terminating
• halting
• disappearing
• vanishing
• evaporating
• dissolving
• discontinuing
• quitting
• dying
• desisting
• departing
• expiring
• perishing
• passing away

2

as in appearing

to come into view

the train station materialized through the fog

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appearing
• unfolding
• showing
• coming
• arriving
• looming
• rising
• reappearing
• happening
• emerging
• coming out
• showing up
• surfacing
• turning up
• occurring
• erupting
• arising
• resurfacing
• issuing
• blossoming
• dawning
• bulking
• outcropping
• debuting
• breaking
• shooting (up)
• breaking out
• springing (up)
• cropping (up)
• bobbing (up)
• rematerializing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disappearing
• vanishing
• evaporating
• going (away)
• dissolving
• fading
• clearing
• melting (away)
• leaving
• withdrawing
• departing
• evanescing
• retiring

3

as in surfacing

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly

an unforeseen problem with this project seems to have materialized

Synonyms & Similar Words

• surfacing
• arising
• emerging
• appearing
• happening
• occurring
• springing (up)
• coming
• cropping (up)
• coming up
• going (on)
• transpiring
• intervening
• interfering
• coming out
• showing up
• chancing
• intruding
• turning up
• happing
• falling out
• passing
• going off
• interposing
• coming about

4

as in embodying

to represent in visible form

a statue of a grieving woman that seems to materialize the very concept of grief

Synonyms & Similar Words

• embodying
• expressing
• incorporating
• manifesting
• symbolizing
• realizing
• externalizing
• personifying
• personalizing
• instantiating
• exemplifying
• illustrating
• incarnating
• actualizing
• bodying
• substantiating
• epitomizing
• concretizing
• objectifying
• typifying
• imaging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disembodying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of materializing

Housing wealth is a large part of that disconnect as decades of appreciation left many older homeowners sitting on valuable properties without the home equity itself materializing as income, unless it’s sold or borrowed against. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026

Multiple Metra directors signed off at their final board meeting last week as turnover related to transit reform legislation starts materializing. — Marni Pyke, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

While lithium supply has weighed on stock prices, analyst Patrick Cunningham doesn't see a meaningful glut materializing. — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026

The organization should ask whether value is actually materializing, whether the assumptions were right and whether the direction needs to change. — Cory McNeley, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Krall just so happened to be interviewing for a full-time gig with the Reds as the trade was materializing at the Winter Meetings in Nashville. — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 23 July 2026

Restaurants materializing among neighborhood residences is feeling more common in Boise. — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 9 June 2026

The president has repeatedly said that a deal to end the war is imminent, despite no such agreement materializing. — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 8 June 2026

That margin could still end up materializing in the upcoming general election after accounting for where Mikels’ voters are likely to go. — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 3 June 2026