STICKING OUT Synonyms: 97 Similar and Opposite Words

sticking out

verb

present participle of stick out

as in protruding

to extend outward beyond a usual point no feet sticking out in the aisles, please

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as in handling

to put up with (something painful or difficult) managed to stick out the whole race despite her bad knee

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Recent Examples of sticking out As Cifaldi and his companions started hiking out, the pole awkwardly sticking out of his side, Stillwater County Search and Rescue team commander Ty Williams monitored the group's progress via a dispatcher who took calls from the group. — CBS News, 30 July 2026 But in general, the scuzz in these songs is homogenized, distributed evenly rather than sticking out in clumps. — Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026 Barrow County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Jason Smith testified that Colt Gray carried the semiautomatic rifle onto the school bus with the barrel sticking out and wrapped in poster board. — Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 The producer remembers one line of the song sticking out to him upon his first listen. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 27 July 2026 The next day the train departed for Laredo, where a worker at the Union Pacific Rail Yard saw a leg sticking out and found the other six bodies inside. — ABC News, 24 July 2026 Nothing says Christmas quite like a bright red truck with a tree sticking out the back. — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 24 July 2026 Tamra isn’t wearing any pants to show off her Depends and the silver pubes sticking out of them. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 July 2026 In the summer of 2024, May found a large gold Tudor ring partly sticking out of the mud. — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sticking out

Verb

At first, 17-year-old Khloe Aguiar didn’t want to climb the over 100-foot ladder protruding out of the fire truck.

— Julianna Mejia July 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
With its extended, protruding proportions and structural overlays, the colorway also features a glow-in-the-dark treatment across its TPU cage.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 29 July 2026

Definition of protruding

Verb

At first glance, corals present as little more than colorful rocks — piles of lobes, stalagmites, and branches poking out from the seafloor.

— Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
Carpenter suggests applying it to vertical surfaces, or using soaked cotton balls in open glass jars (or poking holes in the lids to allow the fumes to escape).

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of poking

Verb

Piedmont Park Arts Festival This long-standing arts festival brings out more than 250 sculptors, painters, leatherworkers, glass blowers, jewelers and more.

— Elizabeth Green, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
The effort also targets a long-standing weakness in the domestic industrial base, where defense officials have repeatedly identified precision cast components as a production bottleneck for military propulsion programs.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026

Definition of standing

Verb

Janna and Diego Escalante, his assistant standing out front tasked with introducing the carts to curious customers, gave Ash a quick tutorial on how to use the screen and enter items from her shopping list.

— Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
Narrative podcasts are under threat primarily because of high production costs, a shift in listener habits toward video formats, and the difficulty of standing out in a crowded market.

— Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of standing out

Verb

Max Martin, Grande sings of blowing through breakups and make-ups and enduring mounting exhaustion with mass notoriety while the music swirls patiently and frequently angrily underneath.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
Historically, enduring businesses like Wedgwood, P&G, and Ford consistently built success by prioritizing customer value, trust, and market expansion, recognizing profits as a natural outcome.

— Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of enduring

Verb

For a Seattle politician to argue that tolerating drug crime and disorder amounts to harm enhancement registered as something close to startling news.

— Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
The Steamfitters were staging protests outside the Pfizer site, accusing the MetroLoft — which employs a mix of union and nonunion contractors — of building on the cheap and tolerating unsafe work conditions.

— Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026

Definition of tolerating

Verb

According to reports in France and Spain, however, Torres has been convinced to join former La Roja boss Luis Enrique at the Parc des Princes while on the brink of accepting PSG’s proposal due to feeling undervalued by Hansi Flick.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
But baby boomers aren’t as accepting of the reality as others, according to social media posts on the subject.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026