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opening

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of opening

1 a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place

  • the talk show host's usual modus operandi is to talk over his guests, thereby denying them an opening to articulate their positions
Synonyms of opening

break, chance, occasion, opportunity, room, shot
Words Related to opening

play, way

juncture, pass

2 a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing

  • an opening in the roof is letting rain drip inside
Synonyms of opening

aperture, hole, orifice, perforation
Words Related to opening

loophole

breach, break, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, fissure, gash, notch, rent, rift, rupture, slash, slit, split, tear

slot, space

exit, mouth, outlet, pore, vent

entrance, inlet, intake

pinhole, pinprick, punch, puncture

airhole, armhole, buttonhole, keyhole, knothole, peephole, pothole, wormhole
Near Antonyms of opening

fill, filler, filling, patch, plug, seal, stopper

barrier, blockage, obstacle, obstruction

3 an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)

  • the rabbit found a little opening in the bushes and darted through
Synonyms of opening

breach, break, discontinuity, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, rent, rift, separation, void
Words Related to opening

chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure

notch, slit, slot, split

interspace, pore

abyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orifice

fracture, rupture, severance, sundering

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