WATCHING Synonyms: 117 Similar and Opposite Words

watching

verb

present participle of watch

as in observing

to keep one's eyes on I turned my head to continue watching the bird as it flew away

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as in following

to take notice of and be guided by watch what I do when I run into that kind of problem

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as in monitoring

to pay continued close attention to (something) for a particular purpose watched the situation to see if it improved

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as in caring

to have an interest or concern for you should watch what you eat if you want a long, healthy life

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as in supervising

to take charge of especially on behalf of another hired a high school girl to watch their daughter until they got home from work

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Recent Examples of watching And Purdy didn’t disappoint the 100,021 fans on hand at Melbourne Cricket Ground or those watching at home. — Vic Tafur, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Ramage stopped watching television on September 11 for a while. — Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026 What happened next — footage of a stunned DeLonge, Hoppus, and Barker on set watching President Bush’s address after the attacks— aired later that week on MTV News. — Sarah Shanfield, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026 Lemont had a special guest watching the match as Chris Zogata, who guided the program from 2001 through 2025 and won more than 600 matches, was on hand to see her former players for the first time since her retirement. — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026 Massive clouds of smoke and dust rise periodically from Mansouri, as the men watching debate which neighbor’s house has been destroyed this time and look for signs of their own. — Fadi Tawil, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Throughout the day, visitors can enjoy playing cornhole, watching college football (including the UCF game) on a large LED screen and a cigar lounge. — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026 The people watching is great, by the way, with a polarizing crowd of seniors and film students making up the bulk. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026 And watching the progress of a defense essentially featuring 10 new starters. — Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for watching

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Freddy straddled all these worlds, observing their points of intersection and grooves of adjacency.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
And thanks to a new observing program, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with an intricate image of a nebula in the LMC.

— Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of observing

Verb

Earlier Thursday, Missouri's top court convened a hearing on whether to hold Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt for not following its orders to use the districts passed after the last census.

— DAVID A. LIEB, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
But while Diomande has been building his own fitness following a disrupted pre-season, Cunha has been ever-present.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of following

Verb

So are your baby monitor, garage door opener, your GPS, the weather-monitoring satellites and the radars keeping planes safely apart.

— Aylin Yener, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
Hawaii residents and visitors should continue monitoring forecasts and any watches or warnings that may be issued as Lowell approaches the islands, the hurricane center said.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of monitoring

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Registrations have to be renewed each year, and solar companies are responsible for supervising the salespeople working on their behalf.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
The shape of the work changed, from producing answers to checking them, and from performing tasks to supervising them.

— Fernando Fainzilber, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of supervising

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Finland has emerged as a key location for data centers amid the AI boom, with hyperscalers and developers eyeing its available land and power, which is in short supply throughout most of Europe.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Lawmakers have been eyeing changes like prohibiting lawmakers from dating staff members, updating reporting systems and retaliation protections, and increasing educational and training resources.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of eyeing

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Chris Douglas, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan-Flint, called it unlikely that stick prices will go up 50% across the board, noting Canada's modest market share, but wonders what will happen if demand increases.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
The power of representation Castillo Flores is eager to see wider representation, noting that Hollywood, in general, hasn’t had the best track record.

— Eve Chen, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of noting

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Both books combine new, headline-generating reporting with intel Wickersham has gathered over decades covering football.

— Aaron Reiss, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
But since Harvey, then a senior at Oberlin College, was writing for the Oberlin Review, covering football was a rather tricky proposition.

— Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026