Synonyms of melting

melting 1 of 2

noun

as in evaporation

Related Words

• evaporation
• passing
• fading
• vanishing
• dissipation
• dissolution
• withdrawal
• departing
• disappearance
• departure
• exiting
• retirement
• parting
• going
• leaving
• quitting
• fadeaway
• retreat
• decamping
• exit
• egress
• decampment
• evacuation
• farewell
• exodus
• leave-taking
• emigration
• clearing out

Dissimilar Words

• coming
• appearance
• arrival
• approach
• advent
• entrance
• beginning
• start
• incoming
• onset
• morning
• birth
• dawn
• commencement
• genesis
• ingress
• debut
• inception
• dawning

melting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of melt

1

as in vanishing

to cease to be visible

the fog soon melted away with the rising of the sun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vanishing
• disappearing
• fading
• evaporating
• flying
• dissolving
• fleeing
• dissipating
• sinking
• blurring
• dematerializing
• dropping out of sight
• evanescing
• dispersing
• dying (away or down or out)
• drying up
• dimming
• clearing
• blanking (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appearing
• emerging
• arriving
• issuing
• coming out
• looming
• materializing
• showing up
• breaking out

2

as in thawing

to go from a solid to a liquid state

a forgotten carton of ice cream was melting away on the counter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• thawing
• fusing
• liquefying
• softening
• dissolving
• fluxing
• running
• deliquescing
• smelting
• trying
• rendering
• thinning
• founding
• guttering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hardening
• solidifying
• setting
• thickening
• coagulating
• congealing
• clotting
• gelling
• jellying
• jelling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of melting

Noun

As part of the melting pot of French, Spanish, African and Native American cultures in Louisiana, the pope’s maternal ancestors would be considered Creole. — ABC News, 14 Nov. 2026

In addition to the president’s chair featured in Star Trek, he was known for, among others, his 1967 A-Line Model 290 stackable plastic chair whose twisty appearance gave the piece a somewhat melting look. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2026

And none of these projections even take into account ice melting from Greenland, which is speeding up a potential shutdown. — David Yeomans, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2026

The dark particles coat white snow and soak up heat from the sun, exacerbating melting that was already happening more quickly because of climate change. — Connie Hanzhang Jin, NPR, 8 Nov. 2026

This was the process designed to stop traditional melting at high heat. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026

The team’s melting models matched the rock’s chemistry best when its mantle source contained garnet, a mineral that is stable in the Martian mantle only at depths of more than 160 kilometers. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 30 Oct. 2026

That overheating can lead to smoke, melting, burning and/or fire. — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

This giant melting pot of data sources becomes hard to track and understand, especially across devices. — Ivan Guzenko, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Verb

My five children had the joy of experiencing Donna’s warmth and the warmth of those doughnuts melting in your mouth. — Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Some days are meant for just melting on your couch and shooting some hoops on your PS5, knowing that your tech has your back. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 29 Oct. 2026

As temperatures warm, more of Northern California’s water is set to arrive as rain instead of snow, with water running downstream instead of melting slowly into reservoirs as a stable water supply. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Stuffed Burgers with Bacon and Cheese Curds Sugared bacon and melting cheese curds or string cheese create a mouthwatering filling for these behemoth burgers, one of our favorite burger recipes. — Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 21 Oct. 2026

The Upper Basin, which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, has tended to be more resilient as its groundwater benefits from melting snow coursing down the Rocky Mountains. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

Importantly, the zero-melting scenario is an extreme modeling experiment, not a realistic prediction. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

Which wet hole is the way out — and which leads to a pool of skin-melting digestive acid? — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

These extremes include soaring greenhouse gas concentrations, melting sea ice and sea-level rise—driven largely by human activities. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026